No Barriers – US Rocky Mountain adventure using Mountain Trike wheelchair
Recently our US distributor, Paul Speight, from Spokes ‘n Motion, based in Denver, Colorado, took part in the No Barriers ‘Whats your Everest?’ challenge, which was held at Estes Park, part of the Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP). Paul and two other Mountain Trikers completed this annual mountain climb event. The event was inspired by No Barriers co-founder, Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind man to summit Mount Everest. Paul has always had a big passion in his life for sport – especially sailing, tennis and in the All Black country of New Zealand, rugby! Paraplegic due to a car accident when he was 21 years old, he decided to learn sit skiing and became one of the first sit ski monitors in 1980. He even became the captain of the New Zealand Disabled Ski Team during the Innsbruck Paralympic Games in 1988. At the end of 1988, he started Spokes’n…
