Home and Away's Holly Brisley: 'My big return to the spotlight'

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“It was an odd turn of events,” Holly tells. “I went on a trip to Africa to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and I couldn’t breathe as I was approaching the summit, so I was forced to stop.

I found out later I had a high-altitude pulmonary edema and could have died if I continued.” That close call in 2010 inspired the actress and TV presenter, who’s married to marketing executive Paul Ford, to reassess her life and step back from the limelight.

A year before the near-fatal trek, Holly gave birth to their first child, son Levi. “There was a moment during the height of that ordeal when things seemed so bad, my nightmare was I’d never make it off that mountain alive,” says Holly, who did the trek to support the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, who raise funds