Dare to Dream

Some people dream of doing big and these dream always stay with them however some actually make it reality, even if they face enormous challenges. I happen to meet such personality during a seminar. I was invited to attend seminar of Marl Inglis, a mountaineer and motivational speaker. Mark lost his both legs due to frostbite while he was trapped on Mount Cook in New Zealand for almost 14 days and he survived with 4 cookies along with his friend. He able to came out from that and climbed Mount Cook again in 2002 and later Mount Everest in 2006 and become world's first double amputee to climb Mount Everest. His climb and struggle was video by Discovery channel movie "Everest: Beyond the limit".
His journey was not easy to conquer his dream, as fist challenge was to have prosthetic leg not for walking but for climbing the mountain he tried and failed tried and failed but he was stubborn so he never given up and finally he along with his friend able to create carbon fiber leg that helped him to scale the Everest. On his Mount Everest expedition he donated one pair of similar legs to a Sherpa name Teelay who lost his leg same way as Mark.
During interaction I asked about David Sharp a British climber who left to die on Everest in that season which created controversy and Mark was linked to his death. Mark said "Only who never been on Everest created this story", on my asking even Sir Edmund Hillary condemned all including Mark on that Mark said "he was 87 and he was never told complete story". I can only say it was wrong to link David Sharp death with him as more then 30 + climbers passed by David Sharp and no one could have saved him.
He is Mountain biker and created special leg for mountain biking. He ride single gear steel frame bike and I was surprised. He promised to share his bike picture. I have offered to host him for Mountain biking experience he said not this time may by some other time. I found him a humble and jolly person. He shared advantage of having prosthetic leg on example he had said "if I break my leg I can fix it in less than an hour however you will not J "

Great honor to interact with such personality !!