Chris Waddell Living It

Kelly Smith has held his breath for more than seven minutes and descended to 131 feet without a tank. He won the Silver Medal in the Marathon at the Sydney Paralympics and worked as an air traffic controller after getting paralyzed in a rock climbing accident.

Show Notes

Kelly Smith has held his breath for more than seven minutes and descended to 131 feet without a tank. He won the Silver Medal in the Marathon at the Sydney Paralympics and worked as an air traffic controller after getting paralyzed in a rock climbing accident; flew commercial planes, worked as a flight instructor, and was on the Canadian Speed Skiing Team before. Now, he solves the chess match of riding single track on an e-assist mountain mountain bike without the luxury of putting a foot down.

What is Chris Waddell Living It?

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.