Now, I'm curious, how did you first learn that you had this gift to be able to open up the world of somebody else and share that gift of being able to live fully in these wild environments?

My entrance into adaptive climbing was through my brother, Sean.

In 1991, he was injured.

He broke his spine, becoming paralyzed from the waist down.

And soon after that happened, I became aware of a guy named Mark Wellman, who had climbed El Capitan and Half Dome as a paraplegic.

And paraplegia means you don't have the use of the, your lower extremities, your legs.

Sean was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

I misspoke.