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LEISURE AND OUTDOORS - ROCKCLIMBING
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| As a late teen, a car accident left rock climber Brad Zdanivsky a quadriplegic. For most people, this would put an end to their climbing aspirations. Not Brad. Instead he set his sights on climbing the mammoth Stawamus Chief, on Canada's West Coast. Beginning in 1997 Brad set about designing and testing a device for pulling himself up this sheer rock face. Each subsequent year has seen improvements in the gear and increasingly impressive climbing successes – including Brad's ascent of the 1000-foot Grand Wall of the Chief in 2003.
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| As a paraplegic Daniel has climed Uluru (with local permission), the 3 Sisters, Dogface & many routes through Mt Victoria and Katoomba. He has travelled extensively through Australia from the tip of Cape York to the coast of Broome and down to the Nullabor. These journeys have created many great tales and sourced many of his contemporary art works. Daniel has taught Art within an Aboriginal community beyond the tar outside of Lightning Ridge. He has exhibited through several Sydney galleries including 'Stills' @ Paddington and the Power House Museum 'Beta Space' and worked his latest performance action with a Sydney Dance company.
Daniel now lives in Wentworth Falls inthe Blue Mountains and in 2017 with four disabled friends he travelled from the lowest point in Australia to the highest, Mount Kosciuszko. Read about their adventure here. |
| Erik Weihenmayer is a world class athlete: acrobatic skydiver, long distance biker, and marathon runner, skier, mountaineer, ice climber, rock climber. He is also a prolific speaker and author of Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See. |
| The account of Jon's ascent of Kilimanjaro is now on sale. With a foreword written by Sir Chris Bonington the book charts the teams attempt to put Jon Amos, one of Britains leading wheelchair athletes on the summit of Africa's highest peak.
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| Kyle Maynard is a motivational speaker, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and ESPY award-winning mixed martial arts athlete, known for becoming the first quadruple amputee to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Aconcagua without the aid of prosthetics.
Oprah Winfrey called Kyle one of the most inspiring young men you will ever hear about. Arnold Schwarzenegger described him as the real deal,a champion human, and one of the most inspiring people he has ever met. Even the great Wayne Gretzky has spoken of Kyle's greatness.
Despite being born with a rare condition known as congenital amputation, that has left him with arms that end at the elbows and legs that end near his knees, he learned early on with the support of his family, to live life independently and without prosthetics. Kyle thrives on physical challenges and following a few rough middle school football seasons; he went on to become a champion wrestler, CrossFit Certified Instructor and gym owner, competitive MMA/Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighter, world record-setting weightlifter, and skilled mountaineer. |
| It’s every New Zealand kid’s dream really isn’t it, to stand on the roof of the world, on the summit of Mount Everest. It certainly was mine, though a dream I thought I had lost when I had both legs amputated below the knee 23 years ago (log on to www.markinglis.co.nz to get the whole story). That was before I realized that in this life, each and everyone of us can do anything we put our minds to. On the 27th of September 2004 I stood on the summit of Cho Oyu (at 8201m the worlds 6th highest mountain) and looked directly across at Everest, only about 650m higher, and knew that what I was seeing was my next challenge.
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| A freak accident on his descent of the Seven Gables in the John Muir Wilderness left him paralyzed from the waist down in 1982.
Mark has continued his love for climbing with the help of his climbing partner, Mike Corbett. In 1989, they made history with their ascent of the 3,000-foot face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
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| Despite being blind for over 25 years, Miles has still lived his dreams, encouraging us to realise that "The only limits in our lives are those we accept ourselves."
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| Summitting Mount Kosciuszko in a wheelchair with the "We Are Explorers" organisation, Paul Bowman lives with cerebral palsy and is wheelchair bound. But he would stop at nothing to make his dream of summitting Mount Kosciuszko a reality! |
| 'Adventure therapy ' was set up to record how climbing and hiking has helped to improve my cerebral palsy. When I get the chance to do it fulltime, my adventure therapies consist of climbing, hiking, workouts with weights and stretching. |
| "Your attitude dictates your altitude!" So says Tony Christiansen and as a keynote speaker to corporates and conferences, double-leg amputee Tony has built a reputation as a highly motivating,inspiring and humorous speaker. Tony's achievements have included being a qualified surf lifeguard, black belt in Tae Kwon Do, race car champion, pilot, husband and father of three - just to mention a few things. |
| Warren Macdonald, who in February this year became the first double above- knee-amputee to reach the summit of Africa's Mt Kilimanjaro (5895m), last week (31st Oct '03) made the first successful ascent of it's kind of America's tallest vertical cliffface, El Capitan. Climbing via the route known as "Tangerine Trip" with Colorado speed climber Timmy O'Neill, Macdonald spent 4 days on the vertical face using a modified ascender that required him to perform approximately 3000 pull-ups to reach the 2500ft summit. |
| The Mt Kosciuszko Wheelchair Summit Challenge provides an opportunity for children in wheelchairs to have a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experience of summitting Mt Kosciuszko, with arrangements made by Rotary and the assistance of support teams*. |
| Paradox Sports seeks to recognize and foster an individuals potential and strength, defying the assumption that people with a physical disability can't lead a life of excellence. We have all been affected by the challenges facing the disabled personally or through family and friends and, as a result, we have chosen to invest our time in making a difference. Whether we're climbing, paddling, biking, surfing or hiking, the physical challenge in a natural environment brings us together as a tight-knit community with a common vision: the desire to live a life of excellence, to pursue our dreams and reach our goals while helping others reach theirs.
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| 'Wheelchair' is a commercial company that includes on it's website interviews with wheelchair athletes and a great collection of wheelchair sports and recreation videos including paragliding, tennis, dance, softball,wheelchair rugby or 'murderball',climbing, handcycling, power soccer, wheelchair hockey and more and more and more. Scroll down to see a collection of their videos.
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| Sir Edmund Hillary has hailed double amputee Mark Inglis's conquering of Mt Everest a "remarkable effort".
Inglis, who lost his lower legs to frostbite 23 years ago, reached the summit of the world's highest peak overnight - the first double amputee ever to do so.
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