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Video of the Day: Paraplegic girl bungee jumps in Whistler
Mar 19th, 2012 at 7:00PM:
Traveling with disabilities poses its own set of challenges. However, challenges can be overcome. That's what makes this video so inspiring. Not one to let her paralysis keep her from enjoying an adventure, this paraplegic woman bungee jumped - with her wheelchair - off a bridge in Whistler, BC. The next time you're feeling skittish about hitting the road, trying something new or testing your ...
British adventurer plans to circumnavigate the globe in a wheelchair
Jan 8th, 2012 at 8:00AM: British adventurer Andy Campbell isn't big on making excuses, or letting a little thing like the fact that he can't walk, get in the way of chasing his dreams. Eight years ago he fell while rock climbing, injuring his back and confining him to a wheelchair. Despite that horrible injury however, he continues to climb, ski, kayak, paraglide, and even scuba dive. And later this year, he intends to ...Wheelchair kid stranded by Air Canada after tweet-a-thon
Aug 5th, 2010 at 1:00PM:
An eight-year-old kid suffering from muscular dystrophy had a simple dream: to race through Central Park in a tutu surrounded by a group of supporters. After a tweet-a-thon, anchored on the hashtag #TutusForTanner (the kid's name is Tanner) resulted in $25,000, he hopped a plane for New York. The trip ended with the discovery that his $15,000 wheelchair had been ruined during the flight.
...Why the TSA insists on screening wheelchairs
Nov 7th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Screening airline passengers in a wheelchair has often been a bit of a hot topic. For some reason, people get wound up when they see the TSA searching every corner of a wheelchair, as if disabled people should automatically be trusted and allowed to pass through without a search of their chair.
The TSA understood this criticism, and decided to do a little research. As it turns out, people in a ...Wheelchair on plane explodes on landing
Sep 24th, 2008 at 11:00AM: Having the battery of an electronic item you take on board a flight, short-circuit and then burst into flames, doesn't even come to your mind when you think about plane accidents. Earlier this month, a wheelchair stored in the hold of a Boeing 727-200 First Choice flight carrying 229 passengers, let out blue sparks while being offloaded from the plane. The minute it was placed on a vehicle to be ...A Canadian in Beijing: Accessibility? If You Roll When You Stroll, ???
Jun 29th, 2007 at 12:18AM:
[?? ? Troublesome, Inconvenient, Bother!] I've been here for almost three months now (well, eleven weeks to be precise!) and I've been collecting images and information about accessibility in Beijing throughout my time. By this, I mean I've been looking around at the wheelchair access or lack thereof here. I shouldn't suggest that there's no access here in Beijing. There are a few noticeable ...
