Student nurse Freya Brown battled severe weather conditions to climb Malawi’s highest peak in aid of medical charity AMECA.

The 23-year-old, of Webbs Way in Burbage, took part in the challenge with more than 20 other fundraisers who are studying medicine.

Miss Brown, who is in her second year of nursing at Southampton University, made it within 10 metres of the top of Mount Mulanje’s Sapitwa peak, which is Malawi’s highest mountain at 3,002 metres,.

The team raised more than £20,000 for the charity, which aims to improve access to healthcare in Africa.

Miss Brown was inspired to tackle the climb after attending a seminar about the challenge while at university.

The former Pewsey Vale student said: “I wanted to go to another country and experience what their healthcare system is like and offer my help. For myself, I also wanted to do something that would boost my confidence.

“It was the most physically demanding thing I have ever done but it’s definitely something I would like to do again.

“It was an insight into the differences between western medicine and treatment in other parts of the world.”

While in Malawi Miss Brown also helped with charity projects in the rural Malawian village, Chiraweni, renovating Chiraweni school, repairing the roof of an orphans home and giving a first-aid workshop.