A snowboard backflip gone wrong landed Alana in a wheelchair. She stumbled onto wheelchair basketball, then made plans to qualify for the National Team, won a gold medal, pivoted to Alpine Skiing, won again, started kayaking, which led her to the ocean and surfing. Also, she's a new mom.
Our greatest risk is taking no risk at all. Hall of Fame Paralympic athlete and the first "nearly unassisted" paraplegic to summit Mt Kilimanjaro in a handcycle Chris Waddell interviews people, who had been dropped into a situation that forced them to confront everything they'd thought to be true. "Experts in the Experience of Being Human," Paralympians, artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, share their fight/struggle/strategy to succeed in the face of adversity.