Former St. Helenan treks across Norway, raises $1.07 million for PKU awareness

Former St. Helenan treks across Norway, raises $1.07 million for PKU awareness

Holly Hubbard Preston for the St. Helena Star

TRONDHEIM, Norway — Former St. Helena mother Alison Michaux Reynolds completed her nine-day trek across Norway at the end of last month beneath a blue, windless sky that belied the brutal weather she endured most of the journey.

Reynolds, a 46-year-old mother of four who now resides in Washington D.C., made the trek to raise money and awareness for Phenylketonuria or PKU, a rare metabolic disorder her eldest daughter, Tia has suffered from since her birth here 17 years ago.