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Miles Hilton Barber to open this year’s Carnival Duffield blind adventurer Miles Hilton-Barber lost his sight in his early twenties, but has not let that stop him from achieving his dreams. Since the age of 50, he has set numerous world records undertaking extreme events across all seven continents of our world in the fields of mountaineering, desert and polar ultra-marathons, power-boat racing, scuba-diving, motor-racing and long distance, aerobatic and supersonic flying amongst other achievements.   He has had the privilege of speaking at over 1,000 corporate events in 69 countries around the world to date.   Despite being blind for over 25 years, he is coming along to remind us that we too can live our dreams, because “the only limits in our lives are those we accept ourselves”. 19