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00:00I
00:01Would have loved to shake in the old me and just said do you know how lucky you are to be alive?
00:14My name is Ed Jackson, I was a professional athlete. I
00:19Was at the peak of my career then everything changed
00:25I had an accident. I had to be resuscitated three times
00:30I was completely paralyzed from the shoulders down. I
00:35Was in a pretty dark place
00:37Many times I thought I don't want to be here anymore. No, sorry. I
00:43Realized then that it wasn't about me. He was I'm gonna walk again
00:54I said to my physios that I wanted to climb a mountain and they were like, excuse me
00:58What I wanted to rewrite the rule book of what is possible in life?
01:03We're too quick to be put into pigeonholes by society and by ourselves
01:08She might be double back down
01:12Helping others helps you massively. It's such a shortcut to making yourself feel better
01:19Ben is an ex-paratrooper on the same journey as me. He's joining me on the most dangerous climb either of us have ever done
01:28Since my accident people been telling me I can't do stuff. I don't want to prove them wrong
01:36It's mentally draining day of my life
01:44Hey fine, it's terrain then does that answer your question
01:51Don't things for each other doesn't cost anything those ripple effects make such a big difference
01:58You never really know how life's gonna pan out
02:05I'm not scared of dying. I'm scared of not really living