00:01I would have loved to shake in the old me and just said, do you know how lucky you are
00:06to be alive?
00:10Whoa, slip.
00:14My name's Ed Jackson, I was a professional athlete.
00:19I was 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 paralysed from the shoulders down, I was in a pretty dark place, many times I thought I
00:38don't want to be here anymore.
00:39Oh, sorry.
00:42I realised then that it wasn't about me.
00:45He was like, I'm going to walk again.
00:49You don't speak too soon.
00:54I said to my physios that I wanted to climb a mountain, and they were like, excuse me, what?
00:59I 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.
01:08I should remember we got all 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
01:25of us have ever done.
01:27Since my accident, people have been telling me I can't do stuff. I don't want to prove them wrong.
01:36The most mentally draining day of my life.
01:39Barry and I believe that you will get to the top of this mountain.
01:44How are you finding this terrain, Ben?
01:47Did that answer your question?
01:51Doing things for each other doesn't cost anything.
01:54Those ripple effects make such a big difference.
01:58You never really know how life's going to pan out.
02:05I'm not scared of dying.
02:08I'm scared of not really living.
02:10No feeling.
02:15That's what story 10 years old is telling me.
02:15You never know how life's going to be whatィ'nt and I hope you don't care I'm sure de me.
02:19You never know how life's going to be.
02:20Let's hear a big
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