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Man With No Legs Scales Kilimanjaro
20 Jun 2012 19:54 #1
by otisptoadwater
It's a feat most able-bodied people would struggle to achieve - scaling one of the highest peaks on the planet.
Spencer West managed it using just his hands.
The 31-year-old, from Toronto, Canada - who lost his legs when he was just five years old - reached the summit of the 19,341ft high Mt. Kilimanjaro on Tuesday after a slow, gruelling and awe-inspiring trek.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2162085/Spencer-West-Man-lost-legs-child-scales-Mount-Kilimanjaro-using-HANDS.html#ixzz1yO8JqIqI
Lots of pictures in the full article, in a word, inspiring.
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Man With No Legs Scales Kilimanjaro was created by otisptoadwater
It's a feat most able-bodied people would struggle to achieve - scaling one of the highest peaks on the planet.
Spencer West managed it using just his hands.
The 31-year-old, from Toronto, Canada - who lost his legs when he was just five years old - reached the summit of the 19,341ft high Mt. Kilimanjaro on Tuesday after a slow, gruelling and awe-inspiring trek.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2162085/Spencer-West-Man-lost-legs-child-scales-Mount-Kilimanjaro-using-HANDS.html#ixzz1yO8JqIqI
Lots of pictures in the full article, in a word, inspiring.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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