October 5, 2010
Spectrum (MIT)
Climbing Higher
by Liz Karagianis
“Some people believe that they can accomplish anything. I’m one such person,” says Hugh Herr, who began climbing mountains at age 7. At age 17, he climbed Mount Washington and got caught in a blizzard, losing both legs to frostbite.
Two months after the accident, Herr was climbing mountains with artificial limbs. “The medical community said, ‘Here are your prostheses. It’s the best we have....
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