Girl, 7, in Snowdon hike after granddad's collapse
BBCA seven-year-old girl says she wants to climb Yr Wyddfa, also known as Snowdon, to raise money for a defibrillator at a church after her grandfather collapsed there.
Bella's granddad Harold was running a cubs meeting at the Dale Street Methodist Church in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, when he began to feel unwell.
He became unconscious and paramedics were called as he was suspected of suffering a heart attack.
Harold is now recovering at home and Bella's mother, Sarah, said her daughter was determined to raise money for the equipment: "She is so fit and she is so strong-willed."
"We were sat in the living room just talking about climbing Snowdon and Bella said 'I want to do that too'.
"If you said 'Bella you can't do that' she'd just climb it twice to prove us wrong."
Bella, from Radford Semele, near Leamington, has already raised £800 of her £1,000 target.
She said climbing the Welsh mountain would be "scary, but fun".
Harold, 76, said he had suffered from angina before the meeting and thought he was having another episode of that condition.
"I was talking to one of the cub helpers and I felt my jaw started going and my chest started going so I took my spray," he said.
"Walked over and said 'I'm just going to sit down'... and that's all I remember, until I got into the ambulance.
"I thought 'that was it, that's me gone'."
The cubs witnessed what was happening and decided they wanted to help to make sure that in future there was a defibrillator on site if anything similar happened again.
Ten-year-old AJ is one of the cubs as well as Bella's brother and said: "I saw grandad collapse and I was worried.
"It's good that we are raising money for grandad and the heart machine"
Hearing that the cubs were planning the challenge of trying to climb Yr Wyddfa, Bella set herself the target too and began fundraising.
"They suggested it for the cubs to start fundraising for a defibrillator because it's a shock that they don't have one there already," her mum, Sarah, said.
"It's needed, with how many clubs that they have."
The family will take on their Snowdon challenge on 24 May.
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