Yesterday, I attended the No Barriers summit for disabled in Winter Park, Colorado, to gain some perspective into a world that I might want to go into: prosthetics. It is amazing. Most of the people I met have to expend more energy to do the same things I do (like wearing a 60lb pack that you can't take off), but most of them were better and went farther. In my midst was a high school soccer player with one leg (below), an iroman athlete and blind mountaineers. It was really amazing how even quadriplegics could get a taste of climbing on the contraption that I am using above, which, like most things they breezed up and I struggled on big time. Whether or not my path eventually leads to prosthetics, I will never see one as a barrier again.
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