A TEENAGER who was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition as a toddler is planning an epic cycle trip to raise money and awareness.

Scott Nielsen, 18, from Rickyard Close in Oxford city centre, is planning to cycle from Copenhagen in Denmark to Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool to raise money for the Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, ASBAH.

The 2,000km trip marks his medical journey from diagnosis with hydrocephalus – water on the brain – at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, aged 15 months to a final shunt operation at Alder Hey in 2006.

Scott, who has just finished his A Levels at The Cherwell School, plans to spend two weeks cycling, followed by his mother, Heidi Nielsen, in her car, leaving Copenhagen on Monday, August 15.

He has died his hair blue and green – the colours of the ASBAH charity.

He said: “I think it will be the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

“I am still nervous and having nightmares about it.”

Scott said he hoped to raise “as much as possible” and has so far collected £1,500.

Visit scottseuropean challenge.co.uk