How Turia Pitt and Sam Bloom became close friends

Words such as courageous and resilient come to mind when talking about Sam Bloom and Turia Pitt. At 41, Bloom was left paralysed after she fell from a rotten balcony on a family holiday in Thailand in 2013; ultramarathon runner Pitt suffered burns to 65 per cent of her body after being trapped in a grassfire during a race in 2011, aged 26. Now, the pair have formed a fledgling friendship, through which, they tell Stellar, they’re bonding over their journeys of survival, motherhood – and surfing.

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