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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Everest: Beyond the Limit

Next week is the finale. The website is good in case you don't get Discovery.

Another highlight of those initial weeks was when Mark Inglis gave Tilly, a local Sherpa, the ability to walk. Both of them lost their legs to frostbite around 20 years ago in very similar circumstances. While Mark had gone on to win medals in the Sydney Paralympics, Tilly had spent that entire time walking around on his knees with a pair of car tires for feet.

I don't think there was a dry eye at Base Camp the day that Mark helped Tilly to stand up for the first time on an old pair of prosthetic limbs he had given him. Within minutes Tilly and Mark were taking steps around camp holding on to each other, grinning from ear to ear and not a single leg between them.

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