Steeton mum Penny Roberts is rising to her latest challenge.

Penny who was left a quadraplegic after plunging 13,000 feet onto a Florida runway when a routine skydive went wrong and her parachute failed to open, is to share her experiences with a television audience.

She is appearing on YTV's Q&A 'Thrillseekers' on August 28, 10.30pm. - before going on another skydive the following week to raise money for Pinderfield Hospital, the Regional Spinal Injuries Unit.

In the Florida fall her neck, pelvis, leg, ribs and back were all broken as she smashed to the ground at 50 miles per hour. She also suffered a collapsed lung, brain haemorrhage and fractured skull, and 'died' three times on the way to the hospital.

But since then Penny, through "the power of prayer", has met and faced her difficulties head on.

Deserted by her unfaithful fiancee, embroiled with social services in a battle to keep her baby, adapting to life outside a nursing home and the determination to walk again, the 37- years-old nurse has defied the odds not simply to survive but to return to skydiving.

Penny once again reached for the sky in a succession of charity skydives, including one to raise money for the International Spinal Research Trust.