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[orchestral music playing]

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[car engine rumbles]

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[narrator] Once… a person
was severely injured.

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So severely in fact

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that the person suffered
motor paralysis

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and the loss
of many body functions

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normally taken for granted.

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Furthermore… the injured person
faced a lifetime in a wheelchair

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experienced catastrophic
disruption of personality

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was extremely fearful
of future relationships

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with family and friends

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and had no means of support.

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One dilemma was obvious.

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To cope… or not to cope.

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To cope meant to work and play

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and live and love
as if nothing had happened.

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But something had happened.

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We are the spinal cord injured.

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We're all badly hurt

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and many of us don't know

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what to do
about living this way.

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It's a very good thing therefore

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that the world is full of
people with injuries like ours

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who have coped…
who are glad they are coping

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and who give to the human race

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in full measure
for what they take.

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[wheelchair squeaks]

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[wheelchair brakes click]

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[tram running]

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[TV anchor] Welcome everyone
to the top of Corbet's

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absolutely stunning up here.

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For anyone
that has skied Jackson

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you look around at the Valley,
you look at the mountains

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you're like okay I've arrived.

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You walk out of that tram,
and I have to tell you

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this place
is absolutely breathtaking

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and just to be part
of this event is truly special.

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[announcer 1] Let's talk
about Corbet's

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here at
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

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one of the most iconic
features at any mountain.

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What an amazing venue this is.

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[announcer 2] Yeah
regularly rated and voted

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one of the steepest, gnarliest

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most extreme runs
in all of America

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possibly even the world.

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[announcer 1] We have got
24 athletes out here.

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It's a two run format.

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They don't have
to take both runs

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-if they don't want to.
-[announcer 2] No.

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[announcer 1] We’ve got
nine women, 15 men today.

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And it's a mix of skiers
and snowboarders on both sides

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and all of the competitors

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are competing together,
so women separately from the men

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but the skiers
and snowboarders together.

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There are no judges,
this is a rider judged event.

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But let's get
underway with this.

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Let's get to the top
of Corbet's here.

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-[announcer 2] I’m excited.
-[announcer 1] Because we're
ready to kick this off

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Kings & Queens of Corbet’s.

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The Kings & Queens of Corbet's

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is a unique event
on Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

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It's a skiing
and snowboarding competition

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to celebrate limits.

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[fans cheering]

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Corbet's is the icon
of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

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It's the Everest for a lot
of skiers and snowboarders.

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When you ride the tram

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you go up 4,000
vertical feet in 12 minutes.

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[man] You know,
you're getting up there

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and then you crest that cliff.

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And there's
a hanging snow field

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and oh here comes Corbet’s

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and you go by
and you’re looking at it

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and it's just like, “Wow.”

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[Travis] I mean it's so nasty

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there's massive boulders,
super sharp rocks.

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[Jess] It's so steep
that when you look down

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it looks like you're standing on

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the second floor of a building.

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[Travis] Within this
death laden cliff area

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there is one route through,
and it's Corbet's Couloir.

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[Jeff] It's for real.

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Anybody who says that
they're a really good skier

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you take them up to the lip
of Corbet's and be like

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“So do you want to ski this?”

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Almost everybody is like

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“Yeah no, no I'm good.”

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[athletes and crew talking]

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[Jeff] I just had never seen
the kid before.

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I didn't really know
what the deal was like

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“Oh, they're gonna…
he's gonna come and watch.”

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[Trevor] I just wanna
get over to that

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-[Trevor] where that shovel is.
- [Jeff] And then

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[Jeff] I see him talking
to some people

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and I'm like,
“Oh no, he's competing”

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you know like,
“Oh okay, cool.”

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Next thing I know

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I'm employed to help
push him up the hill.

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When you saw how far
he was getting pushed up

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before he was going in

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[pauses] it was like,
“Oh he’s really going in.”

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-[people cheering]
-[Jess] Before the competition

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Trevor and I hopped
on the phone and he said, "Jess

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I am going to send it
off the nose of Corbet's."

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[sighs] And I was like

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"Right, how far
do you plan on going?"

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And he was like,
"At least 100 feet."

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And I was like

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[inhales sharply] "Okay."

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You know?

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You know
what might be helpful too

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is if I give you a little push.

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[Jess] As an athlete I was like

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[whispering] “That would be
so freaking rad.”

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Like, “let's do this.”

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As the event organizer,
I was like okay

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what happens if things go wrong?

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It can go
terribly wrong for anyone.

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[intense music plays]

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[Travis] People have broken
their back in Corbet’s Couloir

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just from cartwheeling
down the mountain.

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[Jess] I was really,
really nervous.

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He did just have
a huge spinal cord injury.

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Was I gonna allow him
into the competition

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to watch him die doing this?

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[wind howls]

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[Travis] At that point,
I had my own personal doubts.

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I decided to go up
and talk to him

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kind of wanting to give
my own assessment of like

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should I try to talk this guy
out of this right now?

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[Travis] And I said,
“This thing’s pretty gnarly

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do you got this?”

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He looked me
straight in the eyes

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without any hesitation
and he said, I got this."

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“Alright. How can I help?”

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[Travis chuckles]

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[Trevor] Hey Travis?

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That’s the one I’m gonna hit.

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-[Travis] This one?
-[Trevor] Yep.

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[Travis] I can help you
line up speed.

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[Trevor] Okay cool. Thank you.

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[Travis] When you take speed
into Corbet's Couloir

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it's totally blind.

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[Jeff] He can't see

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what Travis and some
of the other athletes could see

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because he's
in this recumbent position.

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[Travis] I mean
the trick is like

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you know you come in and
you’re kinda looking out at the

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-[Travis] that mountain.
-[Trevor] Okay.

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[Trevor] So I want
to land like right there

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-[Trevor] you know what I mean?
-[Travis] Yeah.

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[Travis] Here let me,
let me give you a full…

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[Travis] If you watch any
of the skiers or snowboarders

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milling about prior
to their runs

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you'll see everybody
walk up to the lip

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and walk back.

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Walk up to the lip

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look down
at the landing, walk back.

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‘Cause you don’t want
to be surprised

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by that view in the air.

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[Travis] I’m gonna,
I’ll give you speed

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I’ll make sure you don’t go over

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but it’s nicer to have speed.

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[woman] Yeah Trevor.

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[Jeff] Travis would push him

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and then stop him
right at the very end.

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The whole thing kind of was
unseemly you know?

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[Wade] As I was watching
Trevor do the practice inrun

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[chuckles] I just started
getting more and more nervous.

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‘Cause it was obvious
he was gonna hit it

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straight on, full bore.

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[Travis] That was it,
the stage was set.

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He was about to air into this.

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[Trevor yelling]
Three, two, one, dropping!

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[Travis] Pointed his
ski downhill.

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[exhales] I remember
thinking he was slow.

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[people cheering]

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[Trevor gasps]

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[Travis] I think
it was a good call.

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-[Travis] I agree.
-[Trevor] Way more speed.

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[Trevor] Yeah I just need
more speed than that.

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-[Trevor chuckles]
-[Jeff] Right on, cool.

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[Jeff] It kind of brought the

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collective anxiety
of everybody back in again.

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Oh shit, okay. Okay.

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No he's gonna do it,
it's gonna be fine right?

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Okay, maybe. Maybe.

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[Travis] You know
we brought him back up

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to a starting spot
that was even higher.

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Probably higher
than anyone went.

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I remember
saying something like

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"Trevor, are you sure that
you really want to do this?”

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[Travis] You know
nine times out of ten

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if someone doesn’t believe
that they’re gonna land it

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they're not gonna land it.

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[Travis] And then um…

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you sure
you want to send that thing?

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[Trevor] Yeah.

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[Travis] You know,
it was like a genuine place of

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I need to do this.

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[orchestral music playing]

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[Jess] It is dead silent.

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I am down there with the
Vice President of Operations

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and our
Risk and Safety Director.

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And I'm nervous.

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They're all looking
at the easiest way

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and I’m thinking, “Nope

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he is gonna go
right off the nose.”

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-[Travis] What do you think?
-[Trevor] Uh…

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[Travis] Can't remember exactly
what I said

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but I think
it was something like

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you know,
"Have fun” and

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maybe, “See you
on the other side."

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[Travis] It actually was like,
see you on the other side

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of this paradigm shifting thing

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that you're about to do.

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[sighs] So you know he reset.

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Called the drop.

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[Trevor yelling]
Three, two, one, dropping!

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[Travis] The rest
is kind of history.

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[crowd gasps]

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-[crowd cheers]
-[man] Oh my god.

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[man yelling] Yeah!

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That was insane.

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[Jess yelling] Yeah buddy!

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[Trevor laughing] Yeah!

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-[man] That was insane.
-[Trevor] Wow!

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[Jess] God
everyone wanted to just

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touch him, you know.

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Just to have a piece
of the magic that just happened.

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[Trevor laughing]

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Well refresh my
memory ‘cause um…

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Was he the one
that first rode it?

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You know I guess
over time people forget.

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There's so much lore
about Corbet's Couloir

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within the
Jackson Hole community.

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But I don't know a ton
about Barry Corbet.

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I grew up riding
on Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

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but no, I don't know
what happened to Barry.

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Well you want the real story

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or you want the story
that we spun?

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[man chuckles]

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[acoustic guitar plays]

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[Roger] Jackson Hole was

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we thought Vail was great
until we saw Jackson Hole.

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[chuckles] It just
was a beautiful, charming place.

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[woman] I met Barry
in August 1959.

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When I first met Barry,
he was teaching skiing

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on the town hill in the winter.

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[Muffy] Paul McCollister,
who started the resort

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was a friend
of Barry's and mine.

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The day that I went up
with Paul and Barry

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was an absolutely
gorgeous, bright blue day

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and the snow was wonderful.

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And we looked at the
study plots and had a picnic

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looking up at what
became Corbet's Couloir.

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And Barry looked at it and said

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"Someday, somebody’s
going to ski that."

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“Someday, somebody’s
gonna ski that.”

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“Somebody’s gonna
actually ski that.”

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And ever since then it's been
known as Corbet’s Couloir.

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[man] I didn't know about
all his accomplishments

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until someone said, "Hey do you
know who you're talking to?”

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um I said, "Yeah Barry Corbet.”

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[chuckles] "Do you
know about him?"

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[Bob] He was this
larger than life human being.

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[woman] He did first ascents
on Mount McKinley

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he did first ascents
on the highest

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and second highest
peaks in Antarctica

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Mount Vinson, Mount Tyree.

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[chuckles] Among others,
shall we say.

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Yeah he for his time

00:13:36.899 --> 00:13:38.901
was definitely
a very badass mountaineer.

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[Bob] He was literally
the Camel man.

00:13:44.198 --> 00:13:45.991
[Muffy] He could never
get away from that picture

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I mean it’s all over the place.

00:13:47.785 --> 00:13:50.037
[chuckles] I've got one
in the bathroom here.

00:13:52.498 --> 00:13:54.124
[upbeat instrumental
music plays]

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[man] When I met Barry,
it was on Everest.

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The major goal of the expedition

00:14:02.091 --> 00:14:05.844
was to get the first American
up Everest

00:14:05.928 --> 00:14:07.972
it wasn't to climb a new route.

00:14:08.055 --> 00:14:12.476
But Barry and I
really had this similar passion

00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:15.437
to do something on the mountain
that was unknown.

00:14:16.981 --> 00:14:19.692
[Roger] Most climbers would love
to have a first ascent

00:14:20.693 --> 00:14:22.528
and the West Ridge
was just that.

00:14:23.696 --> 00:14:25.239
It was the biggest
mountain in the world

00:14:25.323 --> 00:14:27.575
and that particular part of it
had not been climbed.

00:14:28.951 --> 00:14:32.579
[Dr. Hornbein] At the time
of the summit bid, Barry said

00:14:32.663 --> 00:14:35.124
"I think it should be
Hornbein and Unsoeld.

00:14:35.708 --> 00:14:38.252
You guys are
just about over the hill

00:14:38.335 --> 00:14:40.129
and I'll be
coming back someday."

00:14:41.046 --> 00:14:44.466
[Roger] And Barry humped loads
up to the next camp

00:14:44.550 --> 00:14:46.719
while they moved on
and went to the summit.

00:14:48.345 --> 00:14:50.139
It was the first ascent
of the West Ridge.

00:14:50.514 --> 00:14:51.765
[audience clapping]

00:14:51.849 --> 00:14:53.600
[President Kennedy] I want to
on behalf of all the

00:14:53.684 --> 00:14:55.769
[cameras click] people of the
United States to express our

00:14:56.353 --> 00:14:58.564
great appreciation
for this wonderful effort

00:14:58.647 --> 00:15:00.441
by our fellow citizens.

00:15:00.524 --> 00:15:02.068
We’re very proud to welcome

00:15:02.068 --> 00:15:03.904
these men here
to the White House.

00:15:05.821 --> 00:15:07.198
[Roger] He was
a very creative guy

00:15:07.866 --> 00:15:10.243
and climbing around the rocks
was his passion but

00:15:10.827 --> 00:15:11.952
he needed something more

00:15:12.911 --> 00:15:15.456
and film was
that something more.

00:15:17.583 --> 00:15:20.836
When Barry got back from Everest
I said, “Barry look me up

00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:22.880
maybe we can
get together on some films."

00:15:23.505 --> 00:15:25.090
And we made
the first Jackson Hole film.

00:15:25.591 --> 00:15:27.551
[soft piano playing]

00:15:30.220 --> 00:15:31.597
[Bob] What got me
into freestyle skiing

00:15:31.680 --> 00:15:33.766
were these two iconic ski films

00:15:33.849 --> 00:15:36.769
Ski the Outer Limits
and The Moebius Flip.

00:15:38.520 --> 00:15:40.022
[Roger] Barry went up there

00:15:40.105 --> 00:15:43.025
and they did the first
big flips into the Couloir.

00:15:44.193 --> 00:15:46.361
And that excited
a lot of people

00:15:46.445 --> 00:15:48.781
because nobody
was even ready to ski it

00:15:48.906 --> 00:15:50.240
no less do a flip into it.

00:15:52.284 --> 00:15:53.243
It made our career.

00:15:54.036 --> 00:15:56.663
[narrator] These then
are the outer limits

00:15:57.664 --> 00:15:59.041
A flight into space.

00:16:00.292 --> 00:16:02.044
Reaching to regain his shadow.

00:16:03.462 --> 00:16:05.339
[Bob] There's poetry
in the way it's shot

00:16:05.422 --> 00:16:07.132
and what the narrator is saying.

00:16:08.634 --> 00:16:11.637
And they were doing things that
nobody in the world had seen.

00:16:13.931 --> 00:16:15.933
For a kid like me
and all over the world

00:16:16.016 --> 00:16:18.936
it just, it captured
the imagination of yes

00:16:19.019 --> 00:16:21.563
I want to do that,
I want to fly, I want to

00:16:22.147 --> 00:16:24.441
I want to ski the outer limits.

00:16:24.525 --> 00:16:27.653
[orchestral music
with choir swells]

00:16:29.488 --> 00:16:32.199
[narrator] What was
impossible yesterday

00:16:32.282 --> 00:16:34.660
is today's absolute limit.

00:16:36.161 --> 00:16:38.247
Tomorrow's common place.

00:16:48.006 --> 00:16:49.550
-[woman] Is that the guy?
-[Trevor] What’s up?

00:16:50.092 --> 00:16:50.926
[dogs barking]

00:16:52.511 --> 00:16:53.470
[woman] You got it?

00:16:58.475 --> 00:16:59.560
[woman] There's you and Ashley.

00:17:01.228 --> 00:17:02.187
With his Momma.

00:17:02.271 --> 00:17:04.064
This is a great
picture right here.

00:17:04.148 --> 00:17:06.441
-[Trevor] Me and Ash.
-[woman] There’s Trevor.

00:17:08.110 --> 00:17:09.153
[woman] With his father.

00:17:09.695 --> 00:17:11.613
-And his onesie has got--
-[Trevor] Athlete’s Corner.

00:17:11.697 --> 00:17:13.323
[woman] Athlete’s Corner
on the butt.

00:17:13.407 --> 00:17:15.534
[Trevor] Sports shop
my dad had growing up

00:17:15.617 --> 00:17:16.410
my Mom and Dad.

00:17:18.871 --> 00:17:20.914
[Trevor] And then it turned
into a skateboard shop

00:17:20.998 --> 00:17:22.583
and snowboard shop.

00:17:24.835 --> 00:17:26.170
[woman] Trevor loved
snowboarding.

00:17:27.588 --> 00:17:30.340
You would see nothing
but white teeth.

00:17:30.883 --> 00:17:32.593
in the little goggles
when he was a little kid.

00:17:32.676 --> 00:17:35.053
He wouldn't even go inside
to get something to eat.

00:17:35.137 --> 00:17:36.597
“Nope, I gotta do it again.”

00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.351
[woman] Growing up,
my parents were super busy

00:17:41.435 --> 00:17:45.022
running their stores,
training for marathons.

00:17:45.814 --> 00:17:47.608
So my parents
were extremely absent.

00:17:49.109 --> 00:17:51.153
[man] I was running
two businesses.

00:17:51.236 --> 00:17:53.655
12 hour days,
sometimes six days a week.

00:17:53.739 --> 00:17:56.116
Yeah it was,
it was very challenging.

00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:58.076
There was a lot
of challenging moments.

00:18:01.455 --> 00:18:02.582
[woman] When my parents
separated

00:18:02.665 --> 00:18:05.085
Trevor was about five years old.

00:18:06.543 --> 00:18:07.836
I think Trevor

00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:14.176
emotionally took the divorce
and my Mom leaving… super hard.

00:18:16.803 --> 00:18:20.182
[Ashley] From the time that
we were in third or fourth grade

00:18:20.265 --> 00:18:24.228
we moved
probably every six months.

00:18:26.897 --> 00:18:28.273
[Trevor] You know, I knew
we didn't have a lot of money

00:18:28.357 --> 00:18:31.109
so we had someone
rent the third room basically

00:18:31.193 --> 00:18:32.236
so we could get more rent.

00:18:34.696 --> 00:18:35.822
Looks pretty good though.

00:18:35.906 --> 00:18:37.407
And it looks just like
cleaned up and

00:18:37.491 --> 00:18:39.201
you know
it's decorated and shit.

00:18:39.284 --> 00:18:40.661
Looks like an
actual family lives there.

00:18:40.745 --> 00:18:41.788
[Trevor chuckles]

00:18:44.122 --> 00:18:46.166
[Trevor] I guess
all these houses we lived in

00:18:46.250 --> 00:18:47.918
it was just so like short.

00:18:49.169 --> 00:18:50.796
As a kid,
I didn't know any better

00:18:50.879 --> 00:18:54.925
I didn't know what a normal
family relationship looked like.

00:18:55.509 --> 00:18:57.970
[reflective piano plays]

00:18:58.762 --> 00:19:00.764
[man] In high school,
he'd never had

00:19:00.847 --> 00:19:02.724
a ton of support
from his family.

00:19:03.684 --> 00:19:05.143
He was our brother pretty much

00:19:05.227 --> 00:19:07.062
I mean, bouncing around
between houses

00:19:07.145 --> 00:19:09.106
um… sleeping
on couches and stuff.

00:19:09.189 --> 00:19:11.858
Weren't in any
after school clubs, so it was

00:19:11.942 --> 00:19:13.902
let's get drunk and high.

00:19:16.446 --> 00:19:18.532
[Olga] At first
I did not know that

00:19:18.615 --> 00:19:20.701
Trevor was abusing painkillers.

00:19:21.743 --> 00:19:23.662
But then he said to me, "Mom

00:19:24.454 --> 00:19:26.498
I have an issue,
I have this problem.

00:19:26.581 --> 00:19:29.251
I keep taking these pills
because I'm very depressed."

00:19:31.545 --> 00:19:33.630
[Trevor] I was just
at the time in my life

00:19:33.714 --> 00:19:35.382
I just didn't know what to do.

00:19:35.465 --> 00:19:38.260
I couldn't go to school,
I couldn’t apply to Keene State

00:19:38.343 --> 00:19:39.845
they didn’t really
want me, I could…

00:19:39.928 --> 00:19:41.264
probably do the
community college

00:19:41.347 --> 00:19:43.557
around here, but like
I didn't know what to do in life

00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:44.308
I didn't know where to live

00:19:44.433 --> 00:19:45.518
I didn’t know
what to do for work.

00:19:48.103 --> 00:19:49.438
[Max] Growing up in Keene

00:19:49.522 --> 00:19:52.483
everyone's idea
after high school was

00:19:52.566 --> 00:19:53.400
to get out of Keene.

00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:57.237
[Olga] There was
nothing here for Trevor.

00:19:58.196 --> 00:20:00.699
And that's when
Ashley went to Colorado.

00:20:01.366 --> 00:20:03.744
When he saw Ashley moving

00:20:04.286 --> 00:20:07.831
and seeing how happy Ashley was
and she’s in Colorado

00:20:07.915 --> 00:20:10.918
the mountains and snowboarding

00:20:11.002 --> 00:20:14.839
he's like… "I'm out of here."

00:20:14.922 --> 00:20:18.216
Ashley goes,
“Trevor, get a plumbing job.”

00:20:19.426 --> 00:20:22.679
[Ashley] And Trevor
came out to Colorado

00:20:22.763 --> 00:20:24.348
and was like,
“This is what I’m gonna do.

00:20:24.431 --> 00:20:25.808
I'm gonna pursue plumbing

00:20:25.850 --> 00:20:29.187
I’m gonna get
my plumbing license.”

00:20:29.269 --> 00:20:32.105
And he was shortly on his way

00:20:32.189 --> 00:20:34.024
just before his accident.

00:20:36.193 --> 00:20:38.403
[helicopter blades whir]

00:20:42.866 --> 00:20:44.159
[Roger] Barry had
finished shooting

00:20:44.242 --> 00:20:45.577
the Ski the Outer Limits film.

00:20:46.495 --> 00:20:48.622
And we had a contract
to shoot the

00:20:48.747 --> 00:20:52.876
International Ski Instructors
Association meeting in Aspen.

00:20:54.252 --> 00:20:55.545
I remember very clearly

00:20:55.629 --> 00:20:56.838
that he was going up there.

00:20:57.422 --> 00:21:00.384
And then I got very nervous,
something really bothered me.

00:21:02.511 --> 00:21:04.054
And I just stared at the phone

00:21:04.137 --> 00:21:06.181
for maybe two or three hours,
and the phone rang.

00:21:06.973 --> 00:21:08.475
There’s been
a terrible accident.

00:21:09.476 --> 00:21:10.560
It's Barry.

00:21:11.686 --> 00:21:13.021
[woman sighs]

00:21:14.481 --> 00:21:16.650
Dad never talked about
how he got hurt.

00:21:17.401 --> 00:21:19.569
My mom didn't really talk
about it either.

00:21:19.653 --> 00:21:21.947
I think those were…
pretty dark days

00:21:22.030 --> 00:21:23.657
so people didn’t
really want to revisit that.

00:21:24.825 --> 00:21:27.160
[ominous music plays]

00:21:30.372 --> 00:21:32.374
[Roger] Barry was
filming the skiers

00:21:33.125 --> 00:21:34.334
and it was
in the middle of the day

00:21:34.418 --> 00:21:36.128
so the undulation of the terrain

00:21:36.211 --> 00:21:38.338
was not completely
clear to the pilot.

00:21:39.214 --> 00:21:41.466
It's all blasted by sun.

00:21:42.509 --> 00:21:44.302
Barry had the seatbelt loose

00:21:44.386 --> 00:21:46.680
so he could turn out the

00:21:46.763 --> 00:21:48.890
to the side
of the helicopter and shoot.

00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:52.853
The helicopter pilot
clips a knoll

00:21:52.936 --> 00:21:54.312
and starts to bounce.

00:21:55.188 --> 00:21:56.523
And on one
of those bounces

00:21:56.607 --> 00:21:58.734
Barry breaks the seatbelt

00:21:58.818 --> 00:22:00.486
takes out the door,
and goes out the door.

00:22:06.992 --> 00:22:08.535
[Roger] We were all
going nuts that

00:22:08.618 --> 00:22:11.204
Barry was gonna die,
we thought surely he was dead.

00:22:13.165 --> 00:22:15.917
And they got him
into Denver to Craig Hospital.

00:22:17.961 --> 00:22:19.212
And they kept him alive.

00:22:22.257 --> 00:22:23.676
[Muffy] I did go down to see him

00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:25.386
when he was
still in the hospital.

00:22:26.428 --> 00:22:28.346
He had some
of those elbow crutches.

00:22:29.181 --> 00:22:32.058
And he asked me to bring them
when I came, so I did.

00:22:32.684 --> 00:22:35.479
And I remember a nurse
looking at them and saying

00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:38.690
“What are those doing here,
he’ll never use them.”

00:22:42.110 --> 00:22:44.988
[Dr. Hornbein] That’s when
his life as a paraplegic began.

00:22:45.489 --> 00:22:48.200
[somber string music plays]

00:23:04.966 --> 00:23:05.801
[Trevor] This is the first time

00:23:05.885 --> 00:23:07.220
I've been here
since my accident.

00:23:08.261 --> 00:23:11.097
And I was definitely scared
to come back here.

00:23:14.476 --> 00:23:16.811
This spot is super
important in my recovery.

00:23:17.562 --> 00:23:20.024
Getting closure,
you know being okay

00:23:20.107 --> 00:23:21.525
and accepting with my injury.

00:23:22.735 --> 00:23:24.694
You know
I lost everything up here.

00:23:28.657 --> 00:23:30.534
Being back here
is something I need to do

00:23:31.326 --> 00:23:33.745
to move forward to accomplish
a lot of my goals

00:23:33.828 --> 00:23:37.082
and one of those goals is
skiing here at Vail Pass.

00:23:38.833 --> 00:23:41.169
[dark music playing]

00:23:41.753 --> 00:23:43.547
[wind howls]

00:23:44.631 --> 00:23:47.008
[truck engine rumbles]

00:23:54.182 --> 00:23:56.643
[piano plays softly]

00:23:59.187 --> 00:24:00.689
[man] So the day that
Trevor got hurt

00:24:01.898 --> 00:24:03.024
my brother, Trevor, and I

00:24:03.108 --> 00:24:04.401
decided to go up to Vail Pass.

00:24:05.443 --> 00:24:08.363
So we got to the parking lot,
got our gear out

00:24:08.446 --> 00:24:11.616
and started hiking up
next to the snowmobile track.

00:24:12.117 --> 00:24:14.411
And hiked up
about 100, 150 yards.

00:24:15.620 --> 00:24:17.956
And we saw a guy coming down
on a snowmobile that

00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:20.584
stopped and let us know that
there was a jump up further.

00:24:27.007 --> 00:24:30.510
When we got to the jump,
it wasn’t anything too crazy.

00:24:31.803 --> 00:24:32.805
I wasn't really worried about

00:24:32.888 --> 00:24:34.848
any of us
hitting that size jump.

00:24:36.600 --> 00:24:39.269
I hit it first, then my brother

00:24:40.145 --> 00:24:41.313
and Trevor hit it last.

00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:44.149
End of the day, it's dark.

00:24:44.983 --> 00:24:46.276
[Trevor] And I drop in

00:24:47.360 --> 00:24:48.903
and come down this cat track.

00:24:49.487 --> 00:24:51.197
And I saw him,
as soon as he took off the lip

00:24:51.281 --> 00:24:53.325
he just kind of
went off a weird angle.

00:24:53.408 --> 00:24:55.577
And I was flying
through the air like a superman.

00:24:56.077 --> 00:24:57.495
And I didn't want
to land on my neck

00:24:57.579 --> 00:25:00.248
so I tucked my neck,
landed on my back

00:25:00.332 --> 00:25:02.334
my board and boots
compressed like a taco

00:25:02.834 --> 00:25:05.086
and I just heard
a loud, loud pop.

00:25:06.504 --> 00:25:07.672
[man] A person called me

00:25:08.381 --> 00:25:11.176
um… and I was doing a car deal.

00:25:11.259 --> 00:25:13.220
I was in the middle
of negotiating

00:25:13.304 --> 00:25:15.055
so I would never
answer my phone.

00:25:16.556 --> 00:25:17.766
[pauses] I happened
to answer it.

00:25:18.391 --> 00:25:21.353
"Trevor’s hurt,
he can’t feel his toes."

00:25:22.979 --> 00:25:26.524
I said, "Put Trevor
on the phone."

00:25:27.233 --> 00:25:29.235
“Trevor get your ass up.

00:25:30.945 --> 00:25:32.364
Don't be faking this shit.”

00:25:34.366 --> 00:25:37.994
Um… he said,
"Dad I can’t move my toes."

00:25:39.037 --> 00:25:40.497
[Ernie sniffling]

00:25:46.419 --> 00:25:47.879
[Trevor] I just remember
laying there.

00:25:49.547 --> 00:25:51.007
[pauses] You know thinking about

00:25:51.091 --> 00:25:53.719
my girlfriend, my sister

00:25:53.844 --> 00:25:55.804
telling my parents,
telling my boss

00:25:55.929 --> 00:25:57.973
not being a plumber anymore

00:25:58.057 --> 00:25:59.559
not doing the things
I love anymore.

00:26:01.017 --> 00:26:03.728
And I looked at my feet,
and it was just like

00:26:03.812 --> 00:26:04.979
I knew right away.

00:26:05.063 --> 00:26:06.856
[wind blowing]

00:26:10.193 --> 00:26:11.319
[Miguel] We call
Search and Rescue.

00:26:11.403 --> 00:26:13.405
They said that
they're gonna send a team up

00:26:13.488 --> 00:26:14.615
but since the storm was

00:26:14.699 --> 00:26:16.367
hitting pretty hard
at that point

00:26:16.491 --> 00:26:18.743
they said it was gonna take
at least an hour

00:26:18.827 --> 00:26:20.537
and then one of us
needed to go down and meet them.

00:26:21.121 --> 00:26:22.747
[snowplow rumbles]

00:26:24.332 --> 00:26:26.668
[Trevor] My adrenaline
started to wear off and

00:26:26.751 --> 00:26:28.712
my back was killing me.

00:26:32.716 --> 00:26:34.217
[Trevor] Time was
just going slow.

00:26:35.344 --> 00:26:38.264
I was scared no one
was gonna find me

00:26:38.347 --> 00:26:40.015
I was scared
I was gonna freeze to death.

00:26:41.141 --> 00:26:42.308
No one was coming for me.

00:26:43.768 --> 00:26:46.980
From when he crashed to when
Search and Rescue was on scene

00:26:47.063 --> 00:26:49.232
was roughly
two and a half, three hours.

00:26:51.109 --> 00:26:53.528
The search party
was on just snowshoes.

00:26:57.031 --> 00:26:59.033
My brother called me twice.

00:26:59.117 --> 00:26:59.993
“Trevor’s really cold

00:27:00.077 --> 00:27:01.412
he’s in pain."
I’m like, “We’re coming.

00:27:01.536 --> 00:27:03.496
I'm not gonna leave you guys,
like we're coming."

00:27:04.706 --> 00:27:06.207
[Trevor] I remember
thinking to myself

00:27:06.291 --> 00:27:07.917
just don't close
your eyes Trevor.

00:27:09.210 --> 00:27:10.253
Don't close your eyes.

00:27:10.962 --> 00:27:12.213
Because I feel like if I did

00:27:12.297 --> 00:27:13.923
I didn't think
I was gonna wake up.

00:27:26.311 --> 00:27:27.145
[narrator] Listen.

00:27:29.230 --> 00:27:31.107
Something hard
has happened to us both.

00:27:32.734 --> 00:27:34.027
And neither of us likes it.

00:27:34.694 --> 00:27:36.321
[ambulance engine running]

00:27:36.821 --> 00:27:38.323
[narrator] Despite the
inexplicable fact

00:27:38.406 --> 00:27:39.741
that you’ll encounter lots of us

00:27:41.117 --> 00:27:43.661
who say our lives have been
improved by our accidents.

00:27:45.121 --> 00:27:46.539
-[buckle clips shut]
-[narrator] Strange.

00:27:49.709 --> 00:27:50.543
Still and all

00:27:51.503 --> 00:27:52.879
I don't think it takes
much heavy thought

00:27:52.962 --> 00:27:54.798
for anyone who's
broken a back or neck

00:27:55.965 --> 00:27:58.134
to realize that
big changes are coming.

00:28:01.221 --> 00:28:03.389
And that nobody
is giving anybody

00:28:03.473 --> 00:28:04.641
much choice in the matter.

00:28:13.107 --> 00:28:16.820
[Ashley] I had a friend
drive me to the hospital.

00:28:17.779 --> 00:28:19.447
When I got there,
we were waiting

00:28:19.948 --> 00:28:21.825
and I asked the receptionist

00:28:21.908 --> 00:28:23.576
I was like,
“Hey you know

00:28:24.577 --> 00:28:27.038
there's this kid coming in
from Vail Pass

00:28:27.121 --> 00:28:28.873
do you know what the ETA is?”

00:28:30.583 --> 00:28:33.962
[sighs] And she said,
"Oh well it's a code whatever

00:28:34.045 --> 00:28:35.588
it's pretty serious.

00:28:35.672 --> 00:28:38.466
They're probably gonna be here
in about an hour and a half."

00:28:39.259 --> 00:28:42.470
And I said,
"Okay, well I'll just wait.

00:28:42.971 --> 00:28:44.722
Can you just let me know
when he gets here?”

00:28:46.391 --> 00:28:51.271
And I remember…
when he got there

00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:54.357
I saw him and

00:28:56.067 --> 00:28:59.904
he grabbed my hand
and I looked at the X-ray.

00:29:00.530 --> 00:29:02.073
[voice breaks] And he said,
"It's gonna be okay.

00:29:02.156 --> 00:29:05.827
Everything is gonna
be okay, I love you.”

00:29:09.205 --> 00:29:10.415
[Trevor sniffles]

00:29:12.458 --> 00:29:14.919
I don't remember
saying that to my sister

00:29:15.003 --> 00:29:16.546
or grabbing her hand
and looking at her

00:29:16.629 --> 00:29:18.131
and saying,
"It's gonna be okay."

00:29:19.549 --> 00:29:20.925
But it made me tear up

00:29:21.009 --> 00:29:23.011
you know hearing that now,
and it you know

00:29:23.511 --> 00:29:25.096
I'm just showing her every day

00:29:25.179 --> 00:29:27.724
that it’s gonna be okay,
and my family

00:29:28.975 --> 00:29:30.603
[sniffles] and people
that love me or

00:29:30.686 --> 00:29:31.604
close ones around me.

00:29:32.395 --> 00:29:34.147
You know it sucks
what happened to me but

00:29:34.231 --> 00:29:35.399
it’s gonna be okay.

00:29:36.024 --> 00:29:38.443
And I just feel like
I keep proving that every day.

00:29:48.703 --> 00:29:50.747
[sighs deeply]

00:29:52.498 --> 00:29:55.001
[solemn orchestral music plays]

00:29:59.339 --> 00:30:01.174
[Olga] To see Trevor
in the hospital

00:30:02.050 --> 00:30:04.385
[voice breaks] laying there
was a really difficult thing.

00:30:06.220 --> 00:30:08.932
It was just hard for me
to see my boy broken.

00:30:11.351 --> 00:30:14.854
As a parent, you never want
any of this stuff

00:30:14.938 --> 00:30:16.189
to happen to your children.

00:30:17.273 --> 00:30:21.486
And I was afraid and fearful of
what his future would be like.

00:30:26.032 --> 00:30:29.285
[Trevor] I shattered
T11, T12 of my vertebrae

00:30:29.369 --> 00:30:31.704
I punctured my spinal cord,
and dislocated my back

00:30:31.788 --> 00:30:33.414
90 degrees into my stomach.

00:30:35.458 --> 00:30:38.503
I got two 12 inch rods
and 12 screws in my back.

00:30:40.213 --> 00:30:43.216
And they basically told me,
"There's no way.

00:30:44.342 --> 00:30:45.927
There’s no way you’re even

00:30:46.010 --> 00:30:47.804
gonna move again,
walk again

00:30:47.887 --> 00:30:48.805
anything like that.”

00:30:52.433 --> 00:30:53.352
[Dr. Butt] At Craig

00:30:53.435 --> 00:30:56.146
the most common question
for people is

00:30:58.314 --> 00:31:00.233
“Am I going
to completely recover?”

00:31:00.316 --> 00:31:03.111
There are people who come
into the facility

00:31:03.653 --> 00:31:06.280
who feel truly
that their lives are over.

00:31:11.244 --> 00:31:12.870
[Trevor] Alright toesies move.

00:31:14.080 --> 00:31:14.914
Move.

00:31:16.666 --> 00:31:17.834
Come on, move toes.

00:31:19.043 --> 00:31:20.003
Come on, move toes.

00:31:20.586 --> 00:31:22.171
Move toes.

00:31:24.048 --> 00:31:25.049
Move toes!

00:31:26.843 --> 00:31:28.720
Come on big toes,
you got this.

00:31:30.805 --> 00:31:31.932
[Dr. Butt] This is
a family affair.

00:31:32.974 --> 00:31:34.351
And the research is very clear

00:31:35.018 --> 00:31:37.020
that people
with better support system

00:31:38.229 --> 00:31:40.314
tighter families,
have better outcomes.

00:31:41.566 --> 00:31:43.818
[sighs] We were a little distant
at that point in time.

00:31:44.318 --> 00:31:49.032
And I think…
maybe I put up a wall, I was

00:31:49.115 --> 00:31:52.410
I withdrew
when I was around him.

00:31:54.078 --> 00:31:58.791
[Ashley] My Mom, she struggled
to watch Trevor in his PT.

00:31:59.667 --> 00:32:01.419
She was just like,
“I can't be here”

00:32:01.502 --> 00:32:03.087
and like would get up
and walk away.

00:32:04.672 --> 00:32:07.592
I think that
really took a toll on Trevor.

00:32:09.594 --> 00:32:12.430
[man] When you're inside
recovery or a rehab facility

00:32:12.513 --> 00:32:13.806
every single day matters.

00:32:14.390 --> 00:32:18.186
At Craig, you’ve got
nearly 100 people

00:32:18.269 --> 00:32:22.023
with very similar injuries that
all have different outcomes.

00:32:22.106 --> 00:32:25.026
But you're all
fighting together

00:32:25.109 --> 00:32:26.569
to have the best outcome
for each other.

00:32:28.696 --> 00:32:30.699
[Trevor] You have six months
to two years

00:32:30.783 --> 00:32:31.825
to get nerve return.

00:32:32.784 --> 00:32:34.911
And our whole goal
was for me to walk.

00:32:35.995 --> 00:32:37.246
[Trevor straining]
Come on, come on baby.

00:32:37.955 --> 00:32:40.083
[Trevor groaning]

00:32:45.755 --> 00:32:47.006
[Trevor exhales]

00:32:48.216 --> 00:32:49.217
One day at a time.

00:32:49.300 --> 00:32:51.344
[driving instrumental
music playing]

00:32:53.387 --> 00:32:55.181
[Ashley] I think that
was the first time I had

00:32:55.264 --> 00:32:58.851
genuinely seen Trevor
motivated to do anything.

00:33:00.353 --> 00:33:02.188
He was looking for new ways

00:33:02.271 --> 00:33:03.981
to challenge himself
every single day.

00:33:04.982 --> 00:33:07.026
[Trevor struggles]

00:33:08.569 --> 00:33:10.613
Yeah there's the left leg, see?

00:33:11.197 --> 00:33:12.281
Now I can lift it too.

00:33:12.824 --> 00:33:13.950
Ready, right leg.

00:33:14.033 --> 00:33:15.993
[Trevor groans]

00:33:17.787 --> 00:33:20.081
That's as far as I can get it,
but left leg's pretty good.

00:33:20.623 --> 00:33:21.457
Cut it.

00:33:23.709 --> 00:33:25.419
[Trevor] I took all these
things that I learned

00:33:25.503 --> 00:33:27.088
playing sports as a kid,
it was like

00:33:27.171 --> 00:33:29.715
alright, how can I
make this a game?

00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:31.634
[people working out]

00:33:32.385 --> 00:33:33.637
[Dr. Butt] I remember
meeting Trevor

00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:35.764
for the first time
at Craig Hospital.

00:33:36.722 --> 00:33:38.516
Therapists would come
to me and say

00:33:39.183 --> 00:33:40.893
"This guy's going in fifth gear.

00:33:40.977 --> 00:33:43.813
It's premature,
he needs to be in second gear.

00:33:43.896 --> 00:33:46.524
And how do we slow him down?”

00:33:46.607 --> 00:33:49.569
[machine whirring]

00:33:54.699 --> 00:33:55.616
[Trevor] What’s up camera.

00:33:55.700 --> 00:33:56.701
[woman chuckles]

00:33:56.784 --> 00:33:58.870
[therapist] Walking
into the sunshine.

00:33:58.953 --> 00:34:00.454
[Roy] One of the biggest
things that happen

00:34:00.538 --> 00:34:01.998
with a spinal cord injury

00:34:02.081 --> 00:34:05.001
is that first goal people
set is, “I want to walk.”

00:34:06.335 --> 00:34:08.045
And yeah, we all want to walk.

00:34:09.213 --> 00:34:13.509
But recovery has to be built
on smaller goals.

00:34:14.802 --> 00:34:16.680
What happens if
that's your only goal

00:34:16.763 --> 00:34:19.016
and it doesn’t… come true?

00:34:24.729 --> 00:34:26.105
[narrator] It's only fair
to warn you

00:34:26.856 --> 00:34:27.857
that many of us have found

00:34:27.940 --> 00:34:29.942
the first weeks or months
after the escape

00:34:30.443 --> 00:34:32.029
to be the most
difficult ones of all.

00:34:33.572 --> 00:34:34.573
Hard times.

00:34:36.657 --> 00:34:37.533
While the institution

00:34:37.617 --> 00:34:40.077
was toilet training you,
and teaching you mobility

00:34:41.037 --> 00:34:43.039
it was also becoming
your sheltering mother

00:34:43.873 --> 00:34:46.001
who loved you
in spite of your flaws

00:34:46.752 --> 00:34:48.879
real or imagined.

00:34:51.255 --> 00:34:53.633
That comfortable shelter
can be difficult to abandon

00:34:54.133 --> 00:34:57.220
for the ragged,
jagged edges of real life.

00:34:59.430 --> 00:35:03.100
Ask yourself whether
you want to live or die.

00:35:04.810 --> 00:35:07.396
Many folks
with spinal cord injuries

00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:09.941
have told me that
they once contemplated suicide.

00:35:10.650 --> 00:35:12.735
Usually soon
after their accidents.

00:35:14.528 --> 00:35:17.949
They were all of course…
still alive when I met them.

00:35:20.576 --> 00:35:23.996
[Ashley] A month
after Trevor left Craig Hospital

00:35:24.080 --> 00:35:26.791
he hit a pretty low point.

00:35:29.085 --> 00:35:31.879
My Mom told me that Trevor

00:35:31.963 --> 00:35:35.883
drove the car
off the road on purpose and

00:35:36.968 --> 00:35:38.386
she was really concerned.

00:35:40.721 --> 00:35:43.307
For a little while, I was
very nervous for his future.

00:35:45.184 --> 00:35:50.856
because I knew he would be
needing… pain medication.

00:35:52.358 --> 00:35:54.235
I was very worried
that he would just

00:35:54.318 --> 00:35:57.655
fall back into
using prescription drugs.

00:35:59.365 --> 00:36:01.075
[Trevor] The pills
definitely numbed me to

00:36:01.742 --> 00:36:02.994
just like a lot of life.

00:36:03.619 --> 00:36:05.705
I was just trying to forget

00:36:05.788 --> 00:36:07.873
all the stuff
I used to be able to do.

00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:12.253
And once I started using drugs,
and partying and

00:36:12.753 --> 00:36:14.130
you know I just felt numb.

00:36:16.382 --> 00:36:18.384
I didn't care
about anything anymore.

00:36:20.636 --> 00:36:22.972
[Ashley] We were
genuinely concerned about him.

00:36:24.015 --> 00:36:27.727
I was no longer in the picture,
my parents had gone back home.

00:36:29.020 --> 00:36:30.313
He had no one else.

00:36:33.899 --> 00:36:36.110
[Trevor] I ended up moving
back to Max's house

00:36:36.986 --> 00:36:39.405
and lived on his couch
for a couple months.

00:36:40.656 --> 00:36:44.869
[Max] This house was not meant
for somebody with a disability

00:36:44.952 --> 00:36:47.580
especially one that
involves a wheelchair.

00:36:48.789 --> 00:36:50.791
[Trevor] The only bathroom was
on the second floor.

00:36:52.084 --> 00:36:54.128
Every other day
I would climb the stairs

00:36:54.795 --> 00:36:57.048
scooting up one step
at a time on my butt

00:36:58.132 --> 00:36:59.258
just so I can
go to the bathroom.

00:37:00.843 --> 00:37:02.887
I was definitely not
in a good state.

00:37:02.970 --> 00:37:05.931
I think I was at my lowest,
lowest point there.

00:37:07.767 --> 00:37:10.644
[Max] It was probably the
toughest time mentally for him.

00:37:11.562 --> 00:37:13.314
Right out he’s like,
"Dude, I'm gonna walk again."

00:37:13.397 --> 00:37:16.650
When in reality that
just wasn’t his situation.

00:37:17.151 --> 00:37:19.904
He could put in
as much work as he wanted to

00:37:19.987 --> 00:37:22.156
towards the goal
of walking again and

00:37:22.824 --> 00:37:24.159
that wasn't necessarily
gonna happen

00:37:24.243 --> 00:37:25.410
no matter how hard he tried.

00:37:26.994 --> 00:37:28.580
Reality would set in and he just

00:37:28.663 --> 00:37:30.290
wasn’t adjusted to it yet.

00:37:32.124 --> 00:37:33.834
[Ernie] How are you
gonna support yourself?

00:37:33.918 --> 00:37:35.419
Where were you gonna live?

00:37:36.504 --> 00:37:38.297
I mean his plumbing thing
was going great

00:37:38.798 --> 00:37:42.510
but after this accident, you’re
not gonna go be a plumber.

00:37:43.094 --> 00:37:44.095
So what are you gonna do?

00:37:45.763 --> 00:37:48.474
That was a big concern
of mine. Huge.

00:37:54.438 --> 00:37:56.774
Not good. Not good at all.

00:37:56.857 --> 00:37:59.944
[acoustic guitar plays]

00:38:09.912 --> 00:38:12.081
[Dr. Hornbein] It wasn't
an easy beginning.

00:38:12.665 --> 00:38:14.875
There were some
rocky times that Barry

00:38:14.959 --> 00:38:16.335
was trying
to get his shit together.

00:38:18.254 --> 00:38:20.506
[Roger] He couldn't ski,
he couldn't climb.

00:38:21.006 --> 00:38:22.758
He couldn't do anything.

00:38:23.926 --> 00:38:26.387
So here he is stripped
of the core of his life.

00:38:27.888 --> 00:38:29.181
[Dr. Butt] In the ‘60s

00:38:29.265 --> 00:38:32.017
there were disincentives to be
in the community.

00:38:32.643 --> 00:38:34.937
People felt truly
that life is over.

00:38:37.273 --> 00:38:39.066
A trauma is a change.

00:38:39.775 --> 00:38:41.235
Life is change.

00:38:42.570 --> 00:38:45.698
And if you don't evolve
with that change

00:38:45.781 --> 00:38:50.327
you remain stagnant… and static.

00:38:50.411 --> 00:38:51.412
And that was not Barry.

00:38:51.495 --> 00:38:54.874
Barry was the
epitome of fluidity.

00:38:57.460 --> 00:38:58.752
[Jennifer] Dad was
amazing that way.

00:38:59.295 --> 00:39:01.589
He would come
into the fire and come out

00:39:01.672 --> 00:39:02.882
forged in whole new ways.

00:39:02.965 --> 00:39:05.342
He always found
a way to find strength

00:39:05.926 --> 00:39:09.555
and find a way to cope
with changing circumstances.

00:39:12.600 --> 00:39:16.020
In 1980, my Dad
published a book called Options.

00:39:17.771 --> 00:39:20.065
He decided to interview people
all over the country

00:39:20.149 --> 00:39:21.484
who had spinal cord injury.

00:39:21.984 --> 00:39:23.819
And so the book brought together

00:39:24.528 --> 00:39:26.197
the stories
of all of these people

00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:27.865
interlaced with his own stories.

00:39:31.744 --> 00:39:34.079
[Dr. Butt] In my
interactions with patients

00:39:34.163 --> 00:39:36.415
I would give them this book.

00:39:37.124 --> 00:39:41.378
And I'd say, “When you've read
a few of the narratives

00:39:41.462 --> 00:39:42.922
let’s get together and talk.

00:39:43.589 --> 00:39:46.926
Let’s see how this
helps you re-envision

00:39:47.510 --> 00:39:49.553
who you are
and where you're going.”

00:39:50.471 --> 00:39:53.140
[Bob] He essentially
wrote the book

00:39:53.224 --> 00:39:57.520
on living and thriving
with a spinal cord injury.

00:39:58.938 --> 00:40:00.773
It had a huge effect on people.

00:40:01.649 --> 00:40:03.360
[Dr. Butt] It really
is foundational

00:40:03.443 --> 00:40:05.028
in terms of the beginning

00:40:05.152 --> 00:40:07.738
of people
writing about disability

00:40:07.821 --> 00:40:13.536
and what it's like to live
and thrive with spinal injury.

00:40:16.705 --> 00:40:18.457
[Jennifer] In tandem
with Options

00:40:18.582 --> 00:40:20.834
he created two companion films

00:40:21.335 --> 00:40:23.170
Changes and Outside.

00:40:23.712 --> 00:40:24.588
[Barry] In this film

00:40:24.713 --> 00:40:25.631
I wanted to show
new cord injuries

00:40:25.714 --> 00:40:27.091
how old cord injuries live.

00:40:27.591 --> 00:40:29.928
Three years,
five, ten, twenty

00:40:30.010 --> 00:40:32.388
as much as 35 years
after their accidents.

00:40:32.930 --> 00:40:34.848
I wanted to visit people
all over this country.

00:40:35.349 --> 00:40:36.684
People with injuries like mine

00:40:37.142 --> 00:40:38.352
and much worse than mine

00:40:38.852 --> 00:40:40.312
and see what
their lives were like.

00:40:41.480 --> 00:40:42.648
So a journey was begun.

00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:45.693
A journey in search
of spinal cord injured America.

00:40:48.445 --> 00:40:50.698
[orchestral music plays]

00:40:55.327 --> 00:40:56.954
[Jennifer] He had
so many people that

00:40:57.037 --> 00:40:58.457
had done incredible things

00:40:58.540 --> 00:41:00.542
despite their
spinal cord injury.

00:41:01.625 --> 00:41:03.669
[Dr. Butt] The communality
was that

00:41:03.752 --> 00:41:08.090
every single person to have
a creative, meaningful life

00:41:08.173 --> 00:41:10.426
had to reinvent
themselves in some way.

00:41:14.263 --> 00:41:17.474
I like to think that
before I was paralyzed

00:41:17.558 --> 00:41:19.059
there were
10,000 things I could do.

00:41:19.643 --> 00:41:21.478
And now there's 9,000.

00:41:22.104 --> 00:41:25.357
So I can either dwell
on the 1,000 that I've lost

00:41:25.441 --> 00:41:27.526
or I can concentrate
on the 9,000 that's left.

00:41:27.610 --> 00:41:30.404
And of course the joke is that
none of us in our lifetime

00:41:30.487 --> 00:41:31.655
are gonna do more than
two or three thousand

00:41:31.739 --> 00:41:33.365
of those things
in any event.

00:41:39.246 --> 00:41:40.080
[narrator] I don't
want to tell you

00:41:40.164 --> 00:41:41.540
that life will become easier

00:41:43.375 --> 00:41:44.627
or the choices simpler

00:41:46.712 --> 00:41:49.506
or that spinal cord injury is
in any way beneficial

00:41:50.257 --> 00:41:52.176
to one’s mental
and physical health.

00:41:53.927 --> 00:41:56.096
Because those things
aren't true.

00:41:58.307 --> 00:41:59.767
I do want to tell you

00:41:59.850 --> 00:42:01.977
that this
monumental inconvenience

00:42:02.478 --> 00:42:03.395
can be lived through

00:42:03.937 --> 00:42:07.274
lived with,
loved with, laughed with

00:42:07.358 --> 00:42:10.402
surmounted, shared, transcended

00:42:10.944 --> 00:42:13.697
and that you have not
been deprived of choice.

00:42:15.240 --> 00:42:16.867
You do have a lot of options.

00:42:18.744 --> 00:42:21.038
You can be okay
if you choose to be okay.

00:42:22.790 --> 00:42:27.836
The future, however
unfathomable… is yours.

00:42:31.423 --> 00:42:34.510
I have heard, I can't tell
you how many people

00:42:34.593 --> 00:42:37.554
that have said,
“The spinal cord injury

00:42:37.638 --> 00:42:38.722
was my epiphany.

00:42:40.516 --> 00:42:44.061
It was my start
to reprioritize my life.

00:42:45.729 --> 00:42:46.605
Who am I?

00:42:47.940 --> 00:42:48.774
Who am I now?”

00:42:51.193 --> 00:42:53.237
[woman] I was
Trevor's first ski instructor

00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:55.364
at the Adaptive Sports Center
in Crested Butte

00:42:55.447 --> 00:42:59.034
when he came with
Craig Hospital in February 2016.

00:43:00.994 --> 00:43:03.288
Trevor's stoke
and lack of fear

00:43:03.372 --> 00:43:07.126
stood out above anyone else
I’ve ever taught before.

00:43:08.502 --> 00:43:10.170
He had goals
before I even knew his name.

00:43:11.797 --> 00:43:13.924
The first day,
Trevor was talking about

00:43:14.007 --> 00:43:17.094
sit skiing in the backcountry
on Vail Pass

00:43:17.678 --> 00:43:20.097
catching air,
jumping cliffs.

00:43:20.848 --> 00:43:22.433
“Where can we go jump this?” and

00:43:22.933 --> 00:43:24.268
“What about that box
over there?”

00:43:25.853 --> 00:43:28.981
We don't typically allow people
to do any kind of jumping

00:43:29.064 --> 00:43:31.525
but you know
every chance I looked away

00:43:31.608 --> 00:43:34.111
there he was,
jumping something off the side.

00:43:36.071 --> 00:43:37.239
[Trevor] That trip
changed my life.

00:43:37.990 --> 00:43:39.283
It’s just like, “Oh boy”

00:43:39.366 --> 00:43:40.200
you know you get excited.

00:43:40.284 --> 00:43:41.660
You're like,
“Alright well what's next?”

00:43:42.244 --> 00:43:44.121
And you're just like,
“Oh, can I do that?”

00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:49.752
[Ashley] He was stoked,
and that was the first time

00:43:49.835 --> 00:43:52.045
I'd actually seen
him happy in a while.

00:43:53.630 --> 00:43:56.091
[Trevor] Well since I got hurt
snowboarding on the mountain

00:43:56.175 --> 00:43:59.845
about a year and three months
ago on the top of Vail Pass

00:44:01.263 --> 00:44:04.099
I sat there for three and a half
hours in a blizzard at--

00:44:04.183 --> 00:44:06.143
from 4 to 7:30 at night so

00:44:06.685 --> 00:44:08.187
I never really thought I could

00:44:08.270 --> 00:44:09.730
be back where I am today.

00:44:10.272 --> 00:44:13.650
And so what this means
getting back on the mountain is

00:44:13.734 --> 00:44:16.445
there's no words that can
actually describe the feeling.

00:44:17.946 --> 00:44:19.198
This will be
a huge part of my life

00:44:19.282 --> 00:44:20.241
for the rest of my life.

00:44:22.451 --> 00:44:25.329
I went on that trip
and you know I realized that

00:44:25.412 --> 00:44:28.123
I'm not gonna wait around
my whole entire life

00:44:28.207 --> 00:44:30.459
to just see if I'm gonna have
a chance to walk.

00:44:31.919 --> 00:44:34.588
I'm gonna go do
and attack other things.

00:44:37.716 --> 00:44:39.384
[Dr. Butt] Post-Traumatic Growth

00:44:39.468 --> 00:44:45.349
is the ability of a person
to experience trauma

00:44:46.433 --> 00:44:50.604
and craft it into
a positive means for themselves.

00:44:50.687 --> 00:44:52.397
How does tragedy

00:44:53.273 --> 00:44:56.652
transform itself
into opportunities?

00:45:00.864 --> 00:45:02.741
[Ashley] High Fives invited him

00:45:02.825 --> 00:45:05.786
to do a ski camp in Lake Tahoe

00:45:05.869 --> 00:45:10.624
and that's when his relationship
with Roy really blossomed.

00:45:11.917 --> 00:45:15.046
[Roy] High Fives is a
national nonprofit organization

00:45:15.128 --> 00:45:18.383
with a mission to prevent
life changing injuries

00:45:18.465 --> 00:45:20.133
and provide resources and hope

00:45:20.217 --> 00:45:21.426
if they happen
in the outdoor sports.

00:45:22.010 --> 00:45:23.345
[athletes cheering]

00:45:24.304 --> 00:45:27.349
When High Fives gives a grant,
you've gotta set goals

00:45:27.432 --> 00:45:29.768
so that we see
how our grant funding

00:45:29.852 --> 00:45:32.145
is helping you progress,
and you keep achieving

00:45:32.229 --> 00:45:33.647
a better quality of life.

00:45:37.526 --> 00:45:39.152
[Ashley] Trevor's biggest goal

00:45:39.236 --> 00:45:41.071
once he started
getting into sit skiing

00:45:41.154 --> 00:45:43.323
was to make the Paralympic team.

00:45:45.951 --> 00:45:47.119
-[man 1] Come on Trevy.
-[man 2] Let’s go.

00:45:47.661 --> 00:45:49.913
-[crowd cheering]
-[man] Push, push, push.

00:45:49.997 --> 00:45:54.043
[crowd cheers and
rings cowbells]

00:45:55.294 --> 00:45:57.254
[Max] Seemingly
within three or four months

00:45:57.337 --> 00:45:59.047
of starting his training

00:45:59.131 --> 00:46:01.550
he was already competing
for spots on the team.

00:46:01.633 --> 00:46:03.260
[Roy] With the silver medal,
from the USA

00:46:03.343 --> 00:46:04.678
baby Trevor Kennison!

00:46:04.761 --> 00:46:05.596
[man] Baby Trevor.

00:46:06.096 --> 00:46:07.848
[Ashley] So he ended up
moving to Winter Park

00:46:07.931 --> 00:46:10.851
and started out his third winter

00:46:12.227 --> 00:46:15.272
and then decided
to quit ski racing.

00:46:16.356 --> 00:46:19.234
A lot of us were wondering why.

00:46:21.111 --> 00:46:22.696
[Trevor] I quit
ski racing because

00:46:22.779 --> 00:46:25.032
I had a passion
for hitting jumps and cliffs

00:46:25.115 --> 00:46:27.576
and rails and everything else.

00:46:28.619 --> 00:46:30.747
I just wanted to ski
the whole mountain.

00:46:30.830 --> 00:46:31.539
[Trevor cheering] Yew!

00:46:32.122 --> 00:46:34.333
[Roy] When Trevor gave us
his list of goals for our grant

00:46:34.416 --> 00:46:36.877
there was more on there than
just making the Paralympic team.

00:46:37.502 --> 00:46:39.212
He wanted to do
a backflip off a rail

00:46:39.922 --> 00:46:41.882
he wanted to jump
into Corbet's Couloir

00:46:42.424 --> 00:46:44.217
he wanted to compete
in the X-Games

00:46:44.718 --> 00:46:46.595
he wanted to sit ski
at Vail Pass

00:46:47.429 --> 00:46:50.140
and do the first ever
sit ski double backflip.

00:46:52.100 --> 00:46:54.937
[Ashley] I told him,
“Stick with ski racing

00:46:55.020 --> 00:46:56.021
there's money there.”

00:46:56.688 --> 00:47:00.609
But he was doing his thing,
he was gonna freeski.

00:47:02.235 --> 00:47:04.571
[Trevor] My Dad and my sister,
and even Roy were like

00:47:04.655 --> 00:47:05.781
kind of chuckled
when I was like

00:47:05.864 --> 00:47:07.449
“Yeah this is what
I want to do, I want to

00:47:07.532 --> 00:47:08.659
try to make a living off this

00:47:08.742 --> 00:47:11.203
I want to get sponsors,
I want to do this for a career.”

00:47:11.286 --> 00:47:12.204
And I said, “Honey

00:47:13.664 --> 00:47:18.460
let's get a solid career…
and go forward

00:47:19.336 --> 00:47:21.213
because this is short term.”

00:47:24.132 --> 00:47:25.550
His response to that was

00:47:27.511 --> 00:47:28.428
he didn't say anything.

00:47:28.512 --> 00:47:31.056
My thought was,
“Go fuck yourself Dad ‘cause

00:47:32.182 --> 00:47:33.225
I'm gonna do it.”

00:47:33.517 --> 00:47:36.144
[TV anchor] It is the video
taking the ski world by storm

00:47:36.228 --> 00:47:38.897
a sit skier launching
off the top of the mountain

00:47:39.022 --> 00:47:40.816
at Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

00:47:40.899 --> 00:47:43.860
Trevor Kennison
happens to call Colorado home.

00:47:43.944 --> 00:47:45.988
Join Kennison on the slopes

00:47:46.071 --> 00:47:48.699
and see what he's doing
with all that newfound fame.

00:47:49.282 --> 00:47:51.326
I’m sitting there watching ESPN.

00:47:51.410 --> 00:47:53.078
[TV anchor] This is
Trevor Kennison

00:47:53.162 --> 00:47:54.747
who is unable to ski

00:47:54.871 --> 00:47:56.873
except in this
contraption that he has.

00:47:56.957 --> 00:47:57.791
[Ernie] Trevor Kennison?

00:47:58.667 --> 00:47:59.543
That’s my kid!

00:48:00.168 --> 00:48:01.420
Holy shit!

00:48:01.504 --> 00:48:03.339
[Ernie stammers] I--

00:48:04.423 --> 00:48:06.675
[Trevor] After Corbet's,
everything in my life changed.

00:48:07.175 --> 00:48:08.844
People just recognized
who I was.

00:48:10.512 --> 00:48:13.098
[TV anchor] Trevor started
going bigger and bigger.

00:48:14.391 --> 00:48:16.351
He's using his daredevil persona

00:48:16.435 --> 00:48:19.604
to inspire others,
able-bodied or not.

00:48:19.688 --> 00:48:21.940
[Trevor] I love learning,
I love pushing it

00:48:22.024 --> 00:48:23.567
and learning,
and learning and learning.

00:48:27.571 --> 00:48:30.532
[people cheering]

00:48:31.491 --> 00:48:32.659
[man yells] Oh!

00:48:34.578 --> 00:48:35.787
[man] Hell yeah Trev!

00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:38.749
[Roy] Trevor was starting
to set a bar

00:48:38.832 --> 00:48:39.708
that others hadn’t seen.

00:48:40.375 --> 00:48:42.919
He was progressing
so fast in a sit ski.

00:48:43.003 --> 00:48:44.755
[man] Oh my god!

00:48:44.838 --> 00:48:46.882
[TV anchor] This is
Trevor Kennison

00:48:46.965 --> 00:48:48.884
and he is with us here today.

00:48:48.967 --> 00:48:50.052
He's pretty much a pro

00:48:50.135 --> 00:48:51.470
you're pretty much
famous at this point.

00:48:52.846 --> 00:48:54.848
You've made
some pretty big strides

00:48:54.931 --> 00:48:56.224
these past couple of years.

00:48:56.308 --> 00:48:57.894
No one's ever done
this before right?

00:48:57.977 --> 00:48:58.269
[Trevor] No.

00:48:58.328 --> 00:49:00.145
[TV anchor] How has that
impacted you?

00:49:00.228 --> 00:49:01.522
[Trevor] Over the past
two, three years

00:49:01.606 --> 00:49:03.482
it's just given me
hope in my life

00:49:03.607 --> 00:49:04.733
and to move forward with it.

00:49:05.233 --> 00:49:06.735
And to live life to the fullest.

00:49:06.818 --> 00:49:08.361
[crowd cheering]

00:49:08.445 --> 00:49:10.322
[Miguel] His attitude
and his spirit is always

00:49:10.405 --> 00:49:11.823
just so positive.

00:49:11.907 --> 00:49:15.952
That first time I rode with him,
he hit like a 20 foot jump.

00:49:16.036 --> 00:49:18.455
I remember that day
very vividly, he said

00:49:19.456 --> 00:49:22.000
“I want to be able
to hit 90 foot jumps

00:49:22.542 --> 00:49:24.169
like the guys do
in the X-Games.”

00:49:26.463 --> 00:49:29.257
[TV anchor] Now to the X-Games,
and a major first ahead today

00:49:29.341 --> 00:49:32.219
Trevor Kennison will become
the first adaptive athlete

00:49:32.302 --> 00:49:34.096
to hit the big air jump
at the Games.

00:49:34.554 --> 00:49:36.014
-[Roy] Let’s go!
-[crowd cheering]

00:49:37.265 --> 00:49:40.102
[announcer 1] A tale of pure
will and determination.

00:49:40.936 --> 00:49:43.271
Pushing boundaries,
pushing the limits

00:49:43.772 --> 00:49:45.565
and he is set to do it again.

00:49:46.191 --> 00:49:47.317
[TV] Three, two, one!

00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:48.569
[announcer 1] Trevor Kennison

00:49:48.653 --> 00:49:49.988
looking to make history
out here today.

00:49:50.112 --> 00:49:51.738
The first ever adaptive athlete

00:49:51.822 --> 00:49:54.074
to hit the big air jump
here in Aspen!

00:49:54.157 --> 00:49:55.451
[announcer 2] Straight
off the jump

00:49:55.493 --> 00:49:57.578
huge balance,
he's going massive!

00:49:57.702 --> 00:50:00.872
Oh! So, so close.

00:50:03.708 --> 00:50:06.378
I mean took it
to the bottom line and just

00:50:06.878 --> 00:50:08.463
just not holding on.

00:50:08.964 --> 00:50:11.216
[ominous music plays]

00:50:20.976 --> 00:50:21.810
[producer] You okay?

00:50:39.411 --> 00:50:41.580
[receptionist] Yes just in case.

00:50:52.090 --> 00:50:53.758
[Bob] Sit skiing
is a great sport.

00:50:54.885 --> 00:50:57.013
Like any form of skiing

00:50:57.763 --> 00:51:00.391
when you start
taking it to its extreme

00:51:01.099 --> 00:51:02.976
the danger level goes up.

00:51:06.313 --> 00:51:07.523
When you're standing up

00:51:07.606 --> 00:51:10.026
you have the full
shock absorption

00:51:10.150 --> 00:51:11.735
of your knees,
which is about three feet

00:51:11.818 --> 00:51:14.404
and you add a couple more feet
bending at the waist.

00:51:15.322 --> 00:51:17.073
The best sit skis have maybe

00:51:17.157 --> 00:51:18.867
six to eight inches of travel.

00:51:20.118 --> 00:51:21.786
If you bottom that shock out

00:51:23.038 --> 00:51:25.415
it transfers directly
into your spine.

00:51:28.168 --> 00:51:30.128
That can
blow out a vertebrae.

00:51:30.837 --> 00:51:33.423
Myself, and I know
other people that have had

00:51:33.506 --> 00:51:36.218
secondary spinal
injuries sit skiing

00:51:36.301 --> 00:51:39.012
and it’s due to
bottoming out of shocks.

00:51:43.767 --> 00:51:44.768
[Ernie] I gotta be a parent.

00:51:45.393 --> 00:51:48.939
The jumps… that bothers me.

00:51:49.689 --> 00:51:51.900
I mean, he can
come down and

00:51:51.983 --> 00:51:55.153
land on his neck
and… no more Trevor.

00:52:01.576 --> 00:52:03.578
[intense music plays]

00:52:07.040 --> 00:52:07.999
[man] Oh, shit.

00:52:09.710 --> 00:52:11.670
[ski crash noises]

00:52:43.451 --> 00:52:45.745
[narrator] Goals
come in two forms.

00:52:50.583 --> 00:52:52.460
There are take one
day at a time goals.

00:52:55.630 --> 00:52:57.090
And there are the goals
we perceive

00:52:57.173 --> 00:52:58.800
way out there in the future murk

00:53:00.802 --> 00:53:03.138
which we will work toward
with consuming passion.

00:53:07.434 --> 00:53:09.227
Your goals
can open doors for you.

00:53:11.479 --> 00:53:12.981
You don't have to go
through the doors

00:53:15.650 --> 00:53:18.194
but they do ease the passage
if you’re bumping into walls.

00:53:24.784 --> 00:53:26.202
[narrator] So pick a goal.

00:53:26.286 --> 00:53:27.370
Manufacture one.

00:53:28.913 --> 00:53:31.333
Pick anything you haven't
been doing, but can do.

00:53:32.250 --> 00:53:33.168
Then do it.

00:53:34.836 --> 00:53:37.047
The identification
of realistic goals

00:53:37.130 --> 00:53:39.466
is the keystone
of all rehabilitation.

00:53:41.176 --> 00:53:44.012
No goals... no free lunch.

00:53:45.597 --> 00:53:46.848
[producer] Have you
hit a rail like

00:53:46.931 --> 00:53:49.309
-have you hit this rail before?
-[Trevor] No.

00:53:49.392 --> 00:53:50.226
-[producer] In the park?
-[Trevor] No.

00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:52.812
But I'm going to right now.

00:53:52.896 --> 00:53:57.275
[radio] Five, four,
three, two, one

00:53:57.359 --> 00:54:00.403
Trevor dropping.

00:54:05.701 --> 00:54:06.618
[skiers laughing]

00:54:06.701 --> 00:54:08.912
-[man 1] Fucking laced it.
-[man 2] All day baby.

00:54:14.751 --> 00:54:16.419
-[Trevor] Hell yeah.
-[man 1] That was perfect.

00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:18.880
[Trevor] Yo can someone
radio down

00:54:18.963 --> 00:54:20.757
to see if I should just

00:54:20.841 --> 00:54:23.176
uh… backflip it right now?

00:54:23.259 --> 00:54:24.886
[man] Well you can see
what you wanna do dude.

00:54:25.261 --> 00:54:27.722
[radio] Trevor says be ready
for the backflip.

00:54:33.895 --> 00:54:34.896
[Trevor exhales]

00:54:35.814 --> 00:54:37.190
[producer] Let me know
when ten seconds buddy.

00:54:37.273 --> 00:54:38.358
[Trevor] Alright ten seconds.

00:54:38.441 --> 00:54:39.734
-[radio] Alright ten seconds.
-[Trevor] Yeah boys.

00:54:39.818 --> 00:54:41.236
-[man 1] Let's go dog.
-[man 2] Yeah G.

00:54:41.319 --> 00:54:42.445
-[radio] Ten seconds to Trevor.
-[man 1] Let’s go.

00:54:42.946 --> 00:54:46.950
[radio] Five, four,
three, two, one.

00:54:53.957 --> 00:54:55.667
[Ashley cheering] Yeah!

00:55:05.718 --> 00:55:06.970
[Trevor] Let's go!

00:55:07.554 --> 00:55:09.097
Let's fucking go!

00:55:11.433 --> 00:55:14.352
-[Trevor] Let's go!
-[man] Oh my god!

00:55:14.436 --> 00:55:15.937
[man] That was so easy dude!

00:55:17.188 --> 00:55:19.107
-[Trevor] So sick.
-[Ashley] That was sick.

00:55:19.190 --> 00:55:20.066
[Trevor] Thanks.

00:55:20.150 --> 00:55:22.318
[Ashley] Nice work,
you crushed it Trev.

00:55:24.904 --> 00:55:25.697
[Trevor] It's just wild

00:55:25.780 --> 00:55:28.158
three years ago ski racing,
and like you know

00:55:28.241 --> 00:55:30.118
Ashley, Roy, my Dad

00:55:30.201 --> 00:55:31.494
kind of chuckling at my face

00:55:31.578 --> 00:55:33.746
and then it’s just like,
actually doing it.

00:55:33.830 --> 00:55:35.290
Now it's like,
I’ve had this idea

00:55:36.249 --> 00:55:37.041
I don't even know how long ago

00:55:37.125 --> 00:55:39.461
maybe a year ago,
but like... I just like

00:55:39.544 --> 00:55:40.879
I would tell people
and people would be like

00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:44.090
“Oh yeah, that’s kind of a…
kind of like a

00:55:44.591 --> 00:55:46.718
-[Trevor] crazy idea.”
-[producer] Pipe dream, man.

00:55:46.801 --> 00:55:48.094
[Trevor] But it’s just
moreso like

00:55:48.261 --> 00:55:50.847
coming into reality
and making it like

00:55:50.930 --> 00:55:52.140
a dream come true.

00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:53.516
Which is pretty cool.

00:55:54.142 --> 00:55:55.351
[producer] Yeah it's
more than pretty cool.

00:55:55.435 --> 00:55:56.478
[Trevor] It's kind
of wild that…

00:55:57.061 --> 00:55:57.896
And then maybe we'll put

00:55:57.979 --> 00:55:59.397
the box in there tomorrow.

00:56:00.064 --> 00:56:02.150
We'll backflip onto a down box.

00:56:02.650 --> 00:56:03.943
[Trevor laughing]

00:56:06.461 --> 00:56:08.198
[crew shoveling]

00:56:19.792 --> 00:56:21.669
[Trevor] ‘Cause I’m
gonna flip to a rail.

00:56:22.170 --> 00:56:23.046
Rail to a rail.

00:56:43.399 --> 00:56:44.692
[Trevor] I didn't
commit on that one.

00:56:47.487 --> 00:56:48.738
[man] Shit’s rowdy dude.

00:56:49.531 --> 00:56:50.615
[Trevor] Where
did I land though?

00:56:51.574 --> 00:56:53.868
[man] Dude you landed
right in line with the

00:56:53.952 --> 00:56:55.787
orange dots there,
on the right.

00:56:56.329 --> 00:56:57.872
[Trevor] I'm gonna do
honestly another

00:56:57.956 --> 00:57:00.083
same speed
just rip it a little harder.

00:57:03.586 --> 00:57:04.754
[man] Yep, yep.

00:57:10.260 --> 00:57:11.511
[Trevor] Dude that was so money.

00:57:11.928 --> 00:57:12.845
‘Cause that's basically
how I want

00:57:12.929 --> 00:57:15.265
to land on the rail
is like basically here.

00:57:15.848 --> 00:57:16.724
That was it dude.

00:57:17.308 --> 00:57:18.142
I say we put it in.

00:57:20.311 --> 00:57:22.146
[man] So many things
that are out of your control

00:57:22.230 --> 00:57:24.148
-[man] like on that rail.
-[Trevor] Yeah.

00:57:24.232 --> 00:57:25.108
[man] That it's like

00:57:25.567 --> 00:57:27.318
-[man] it's so gnarly.
-[Trevor] For sure.

00:57:27.402 --> 00:57:29.737
[man] And you're landing
literally on four inches.

00:57:29.821 --> 00:57:30.863
[Trevor] I know.

00:57:33.408 --> 00:57:34.284
[Trevor] I think
this is gonna be

00:57:34.367 --> 00:57:35.368
the scariest thing in my life.

00:57:36.202 --> 00:57:37.204
I don’t know, like scary

00:57:37.288 --> 00:57:38.914
but I feel
comfortable with this.

00:57:38.997 --> 00:57:39.706
You know
what I mean like--

00:57:39.790 --> 00:57:41.500
-[producer] Yeah.
-[Trevor] And I just need to

00:57:41.583 --> 00:57:44.335
once I get on the rail just…
I just need to rip my backflip.

00:57:46.796 --> 00:57:49.757
[ominous music builds]

00:57:54.262 --> 00:57:55.096
[Trevor sighs]

00:57:57.348 --> 00:57:58.349
Jeez boys.

00:57:58.891 --> 00:57:59.767
I’m fucking nervous.

00:58:10.028 --> 00:58:10.904
[Trevor exhales]

00:58:11.489 --> 00:58:12.448
[Trevor] Alright let's
get it, boys.

00:58:12.530 --> 00:58:13.615
-[man] Yeah Trev.
-[Trevor] Alright, let’s get it.

00:58:14.699 --> 00:58:16.034
-[man] Yeah Trev.
-[Trevor] Dropping.

00:58:19.120 --> 00:58:22.081
[instrumental music builds]

00:58:41.017 --> 00:58:42.393
[Trevor cheers]

00:58:42.477 --> 00:58:43.853
[Trevor] Lets fucking go!

00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:48.107
[Trevor laughing]
Let’s go!

00:58:49.275 --> 00:58:50.860
[Trevor] Oh my god!

00:58:50.944 --> 00:58:52.946
[Trevor laughing]

00:58:53.488 --> 00:58:54.322
[man] Yeah baby.

00:58:57.200 --> 00:58:59.077
[Trevor] Holy shit.

00:58:59.952 --> 00:59:00.953
Oh my god.

00:59:01.037 --> 00:59:01.871
I did it!

00:59:02.373 --> 00:59:05.083
[Trevor laughing] Let’s go!

00:59:05.166 --> 00:59:07.210
[Trevor] I've been dreaming
about doing this for two years.

00:59:08.503 --> 00:59:10.171
-After doing the backflip--
-No way.

00:59:10.254 --> 00:59:12.632
last year on that rail,
here it is a year later.

00:59:12.715 --> 00:59:14.384
-[Trevor yelling] Let’s go.
-Rode it out.

00:59:15.510 --> 00:59:17.970
Honestly, it's
one of the best feelings.

00:59:18.054 --> 00:59:20.140
One of the best
feelings, let’s go.

00:59:20.224 --> 00:59:21.305
[Trevor clapping] Let's go.

00:59:22.642 --> 00:59:23.476
[excitedly] Yew!

00:59:26.145 --> 00:59:28.314
[friends cheering]

00:59:28.398 --> 00:59:29.358
[producer] Dude!

00:59:29.441 --> 00:59:31.569
[man] Right on bottom
of your ski dude!

00:59:32.568 --> 00:59:33.986
[Trevor] Thanks for all
the help everybody.

00:59:39.158 --> 00:59:40.536
[Jennifer] Dad did
reinvent himself

00:59:40.619 --> 00:59:41.537
in a lot of ways.

00:59:41.661 --> 00:59:44.539
You know after his accident,
he couldn’t ski anymore

00:59:44.622 --> 00:59:47.166
he couldn’t climb anymore.

00:59:47.250 --> 00:59:49.460
He sought out new conquests.

00:59:51.170 --> 00:59:52.339
So in the early ‘70s

00:59:52.423 --> 00:59:54.466
Dad was filming a movie
with Roger Brown

00:59:54.549 --> 00:59:55.884
called The Edge,
and they did

00:59:56.427 --> 00:59:58.095
several weeks
in the Grand Canyon.

00:59:58.803 --> 01:00:02.014
[Bob] No paraplegic
had ever tried kayaking.

01:00:02.098 --> 01:00:04.392
And as he's shooting
this movie from a chair

01:00:04.475 --> 01:00:05.309
he noticed, “Hey…

01:00:06.561 --> 01:00:08.187
everything they do
is the upper body.

01:00:09.230 --> 01:00:10.356
That's what I've got.

01:00:11.023 --> 01:00:12.108
I think I'm gonna try that.”

01:00:13.651 --> 01:00:14.569
[Dr. Butt] He learned it

01:00:14.652 --> 01:00:18.823
against all the admonitions
of all the people at Craig

01:00:18.906 --> 01:00:22.660
for fear of skin sores,
decubitus ulcers.

01:00:23.286 --> 01:00:25.538
For fear that
he would die on the river.

01:00:26.622 --> 01:00:27.749
[Roger] He was paralyzed
in the legs

01:00:28.666 --> 01:00:30.960
and a lot of kayaking
is in the hips

01:00:31.544 --> 01:00:33.129
‘cause if you get knocked over

01:00:33.212 --> 01:00:37.467
you have to twist your hips
and paddle at the same time

01:00:37.550 --> 01:00:40.428
on one side or the other
to get yourself back up.

01:00:42.013 --> 01:00:44.307
[Dr. Butt] Indeed there was
a point where

01:00:44.390 --> 01:00:45.892
he almost died on the river

01:00:45.975 --> 01:00:47.811
because he couldn't
sufficiently roll

01:00:47.894 --> 01:00:49.020
given the current.

01:00:50.480 --> 01:00:53.483
[Bob] So Barry spent months with
some of the best instructors

01:00:53.566 --> 01:00:57.111
and created a way
to Eskimo roll a kayak.

01:00:59.030 --> 01:01:00.782
[Dr. Butt] He
developed techniques

01:01:00.865 --> 01:01:05.286
he found ways to hitch three
kayaks on the side of his van.

01:01:07.580 --> 01:01:10.291
One of the old monikers
that I love about Craig Hospital

01:01:10.792 --> 01:01:12.710
is redefining possible.

01:01:13.711 --> 01:01:14.629
And when I think about Barry

01:01:14.712 --> 01:01:16.631
that's what I think about
in many ways.

01:01:17.256 --> 01:01:19.217
He redefined what was possible.

01:01:19.301 --> 01:01:21.345
[spanish guitar plays]

01:01:22.845 --> 01:01:27.141
[Bob] Barry being Barry,
as a paraplegic kayaker ran

01:01:27.225 --> 01:01:29.685
all the most extreme
rivers in the West

01:01:29.769 --> 01:01:31.062
including the Grand Canyon.

01:01:35.066 --> 01:01:35.900
[Roger] It meant a lot to him

01:01:35.983 --> 01:01:38.486
because he had been
cut out of all the things

01:01:38.569 --> 01:01:40.613
he really liked to do,
the great adventures and

01:01:41.322 --> 01:01:43.783
kayaking gave him
back adventure.

01:01:45.451 --> 01:01:47.495
[Jennifer] He found a way
to have his fun no matter what.

01:01:47.995 --> 01:01:50.040
And it wasn't the way
he did it before

01:01:50.123 --> 01:01:52.042
but it was a way
that worked for him.

01:01:53.709 --> 01:01:55.586
[Bob] Essentially, Barry said

01:01:55.670 --> 01:01:58.589
“I'm not gonna let my
wheelchair define me.

01:01:58.673 --> 01:02:03.636
I'm gonna define myself
through athletic endeavors

01:02:03.719 --> 01:02:06.931
that go beyond
what people perceive

01:02:07.015 --> 01:02:08.642
a wheelchair user can do.”

01:02:09.733 --> 01:02:12.353
[wheels cracking on gravel]

01:02:16.399 --> 01:02:17.859
[narrator] As you
and your injury mellow

01:02:17.942 --> 01:02:18.819
through a little time

01:02:20.194 --> 01:02:22.071
you'll find that you don't
think much about walking.

01:02:25.741 --> 01:02:28.119
Nor will you think wistfully
about whatever you used to do.

01:02:31.247 --> 01:02:33.708
You'll start to think
with interest and pleasure

01:02:34.375 --> 01:02:35.710
about the things you can do now.

01:02:39.046 --> 01:02:40.047
There are more than enough

01:02:40.131 --> 01:02:42.925
things you can do
after a broken back or neck.

01:02:43.009 --> 01:02:45.136
And some of them
you’ll like so much

01:02:45.636 --> 01:02:47.763
that you'll be unable
to contain your joy.

01:02:48.348 --> 01:02:49.683
[Trevor chuckles]

01:02:51.434 --> 01:02:54.353
[helicopter engine turns on]

01:02:56.772 --> 01:02:58.482
[man] And we’re firing up.

01:02:59.358 --> 01:03:00.192
[Trevor] Yeah baby.

01:03:01.110 --> 01:03:02.904
[man] Yes, Trevor.

01:03:05.439 --> 01:03:07.481
[high energy music plays]

01:03:42.860 --> 01:03:44.320
[Trevor] Yeah boys!

01:03:44.987 --> 01:03:46.948
Yeah boys.

01:03:47.031 --> 01:03:48.324
Let’s go baby.

01:03:54.372 --> 01:03:55.873
[radio] Trevor’s gonna ride this

01:03:55.957 --> 01:03:58.125
main chute just beneath us.

01:03:58.751 --> 01:04:02.797
Alright three, two,
one, dropping.

01:04:03.798 --> 01:04:04.632
[man] Get it dude.

01:04:23.861 --> 01:04:25.028
[Trevor shouts]

01:04:26.070 --> 01:04:27.947
[Trevor] Oh my goodness!

01:04:32.910 --> 01:04:34.578
Sit skiing gave me that freedom

01:04:35.329 --> 01:04:36.330
being out of my wheelchair.

01:04:37.081 --> 01:04:38.499
I could go anywhere
on the mountain.

01:04:38.582 --> 01:04:39.917
I could be just like
anyone else.

01:04:41.210 --> 01:04:42.713
Having that freedom back

01:04:42.796 --> 01:04:44.464
it gave me such
a purpose to life.

01:04:45.048 --> 01:04:48.467
[Trevor laughing] Oh my god!

01:04:50.344 --> 01:04:51.846
[Trevor giggling]

01:04:51.929 --> 01:04:53.681
[Trevor] Here's the thing,
when I’m in my ski

01:04:54.306 --> 01:04:55.683
I feel free,
I feel whole

01:04:56.267 --> 01:04:57.476
and I feel extremely happy.

01:04:58.352 --> 01:05:02.356
Just sliding on the snow
literally soothes my soul.

01:05:02.440 --> 01:05:06.319
[Trevor laughing]
Oh my god, let’s go!

01:05:08.738 --> 01:05:09.739
Yeah boys!

01:05:10.322 --> 01:05:12.825
[Trevor laughing]

01:05:16.370 --> 01:05:17.538
That was a good one.

01:05:20.374 --> 01:05:23.169
[Trevor] When you go skiing or
snowboarding, you have to adapt.

01:05:24.587 --> 01:05:27.882
When I do it now, I just
have to adapt a little bit more.

01:05:29.008 --> 01:05:30.134
[Heavy drums playing]

01:05:45.066 --> 01:05:48.027
[Trevor cheering]

01:06:00.956 --> 01:06:02.083
[Trevor cheering]

01:06:14.970 --> 01:06:16.972
[man] Every turn
he just gets so pitted.

01:06:17.765 --> 01:06:19.266
[laughing] He just disappears.

01:06:30.402 --> 01:06:32.446
[man] Yeah doggy!

01:06:34.156 --> 01:06:36.158
-[KC laughing]
-[man] Yeah!

01:06:37.910 --> 01:06:39.703
[KC] After a spinal
cord injury it’s

01:06:40.204 --> 01:06:42.331
it feels like you can't take
anything for granted.

01:06:42.414 --> 01:06:43.165
That's the thing about

01:06:43.249 --> 01:06:44.626
being in the mountains
with Trevor here

01:06:44.709 --> 01:06:45.627
is you see it in him.

01:06:46.460 --> 01:06:48.546
You know,
he’s in a sit ski but

01:06:48.629 --> 01:06:51.590
he's not bumming about
the fact that he’s in a sit ski.

01:06:51.674 --> 01:06:54.760
[radio] Three, two,
one, Trevor dropping.

01:06:55.845 --> 01:06:57.054
[KC] He has something about him

01:06:57.138 --> 01:06:59.598
he's just kind of glowing
when he’s out there.

01:06:59.682 --> 01:07:01.559
Just like this pure stoke
that comes out of him.

01:07:02.059 --> 01:07:03.018
And it's pretty special.

01:07:06.230 --> 01:07:07.732
I don't think that
he’s just inspiring

01:07:07.816 --> 01:07:09.317
people that are
maybe adaptive

01:07:09.441 --> 01:07:11.527
or have anything
that's limiting them.

01:07:13.028 --> 01:07:14.531
He's inspiring people that

01:07:14.656 --> 01:07:16.616
are just like me
and you, they’re just

01:07:17.575 --> 01:07:19.743
you know they got ten fingers,
ten toes that work.

01:07:20.452 --> 01:07:21.412
Two breaths and a heartbeat.

01:07:22.288 --> 01:07:23.790
And they're looking
at Trevor thinking

01:07:23.874 --> 01:07:25.083
“There’s no way I can do that.”

01:07:27.126 --> 01:07:29.628
He's not just
an adaptive athlete

01:07:29.712 --> 01:07:30.588
he's just an athlete.

01:07:31.547 --> 01:07:32.798
The thing is if you want to

01:07:32.882 --> 01:07:35.384
up the game
and hit stuff like this

01:07:35.467 --> 01:07:37.136
just take it one turn at a time.

01:07:37.845 --> 01:07:38.679
[Trevor exhales]

01:07:39.013 --> 01:07:40.472
-[Trevor] Okay.
-[KC] You good?

01:07:41.140 --> 01:07:41.974
[Trevor] Yep.

01:07:42.766 --> 01:07:44.268
[KC] Alright if you copy

01:07:44.768 --> 01:07:46.395
Trev dropping in ten.

01:07:47.230 --> 01:07:49.149
[Trevor exhales deeply]

01:07:49.231 --> 01:07:53.986
[KC] Trev in five, four,
three, two, one.

01:08:14.715 --> 01:08:17.676
[Trevor and crew cheering]

01:08:18.761 --> 01:08:20.095
[Trevor] Holy.

01:08:20.179 --> 01:08:23.015
That’s by far the
biggest cliff I've done!

01:08:24.017 --> 01:08:24.559
[Trevor cheers]

01:08:25.936 --> 01:08:27.104
[KC laughs]

01:08:27.186 --> 01:08:30.522
-[man] Dude the GoPro is like--
-[KC] Look at where you landed!

01:08:30.606 --> 01:08:31.607
[Trevor] Yeah dude.

01:08:32.274 --> 01:08:35.070
[KC and Trevor laughing]

01:08:35.152 --> 01:08:36.111
[KC] Yes!

01:08:39.323 --> 01:08:40.866
[narrator] I've had
glorious days.

01:08:41.992 --> 01:08:44.745
Days when everyone
and everything I encounter

01:08:44.828 --> 01:08:47.122
dances to some tune I know well.

01:08:48.999 --> 01:08:50.125
On those days

01:08:50.209 --> 01:08:52.461
confidence and
good cheer flow out of me

01:08:52.544 --> 01:08:54.296
and infect total strangers.

01:08:56.715 --> 01:08:57.716
And on some days

01:08:58.217 --> 01:09:00.177
the wheelchair
becomes a rolling ghetto.

01:09:00.970 --> 01:09:04.473
A chrome cage that blocks
communication absolutely.

01:09:05.641 --> 01:09:07.935
Period. Don't bother me

01:09:08.978 --> 01:09:10.521
I'm crippled today.

01:09:14.984 --> 01:09:17.904
I have never felt despised
for being in a wheelchair.

01:09:18.404 --> 01:09:19.656
[keys jingling]

01:09:19.738 --> 01:09:20.656
[narrator] I have felt pitied.

01:09:23.575 --> 01:09:24.994
I have despised myself.

01:09:27.371 --> 01:09:29.331
The first is the
other person's problem

01:09:31.709 --> 01:09:33.377
and the second is mine.

01:09:37.923 --> 01:09:39.800
[Trevor] Having a spinal
cord injury, it sucks.

01:09:41.343 --> 01:09:45.180
A lot of people look at you and
they just see a wheelchair.

01:09:45.264 --> 01:09:46.349
And that's fine

01:09:46.432 --> 01:09:48.268
but it’s way more
than a wheelchair.

01:09:49.727 --> 01:09:51.395
The wheelchair is
just a part of you

01:09:51.479 --> 01:09:52.480
you know those are your legs.

01:09:55.232 --> 01:09:56.567
People come up to me and

01:09:56.651 --> 01:09:57.861
they’re like,
“Oh what happened?”

01:09:57.985 --> 01:10:00.197
“Oh I, you know I broke
my back snowboarding”

01:10:00.280 --> 01:10:01.322
and they’re like,
“Oh I’m sorry.”

01:10:01.989 --> 01:10:03.032
And that's all they say.

01:10:03.824 --> 01:10:06.201
[laughing] Then I'm like,
“Why are you sorry?”

01:10:06.285 --> 01:10:09.204
You know it’s like,
“Alright that’s fine.”

01:10:09.705 --> 01:10:10.957
But you should be sorry about

01:10:11.041 --> 01:10:12.917
the real things
that really get to me.

01:10:13.584 --> 01:10:16.003
Those things, that
you should be sorry about.

01:10:16.086 --> 01:10:17.046
But people don't know.

01:10:20.966 --> 01:10:22.719
[Jennifer] So after Dad
finished filmmaking

01:10:22.802 --> 01:10:23.469
and went into writing

01:10:23.552 --> 01:10:26.555
he became editor
for a rag called New Mobility.

01:10:28.265 --> 01:10:30.809
[Dr. Butt] When Barry
became the editor

01:10:30.893 --> 01:10:34.730
he could reach people in ways
that he was never able to prior.

01:10:36.273 --> 01:10:37.441
[Bob] Barry and the magazine

01:10:37.525 --> 01:10:40.403
covered really difficult topics.

01:10:40.527 --> 01:10:42.988
Drug use and or abuse
in spinal cord injury

01:10:43.072 --> 01:10:46.950
spinal cord injured people
in prison, sexuality

01:10:47.034 --> 01:10:49.495
there was no subject
that was taboo.

01:10:50.871 --> 01:10:54.750
It was this edgy Rolling Stone
for wheelchair users.

01:10:56.210 --> 01:10:58.629
[Dr. Butt] He was speaking
the unspeakable.

01:10:59.463 --> 01:11:02.341
Bowel programs,
bladder management

01:11:03.175 --> 01:11:06.595
all things that are
kind of verbten or forbidden

01:11:06.678 --> 01:11:08.430
in the able-bodied community.

01:11:12.267 --> 01:11:13.602
[Ashley] When he
first got injured

01:11:13.685 --> 01:11:17.189
I wondered if he
would be able to date again.

01:11:19.274 --> 01:11:21.527
Trevor has always
wanted a family

01:11:21.610 --> 01:11:24.530
that's something that's
particularly important to him.

01:11:26.698 --> 01:11:30.285
[Trevor] I can get hard,
but I can't get a girl pregnant.

01:11:31.495 --> 01:11:33.247
It's all those things that

01:11:33.330 --> 01:11:35.166
you don't think about
getting injured

01:11:35.250 --> 01:11:37.168
and all those things
that happen after.

01:11:38.627 --> 01:11:39.503
That’s real life.

01:11:40.671 --> 01:11:41.547
I deal with that.

01:11:44.091 --> 01:11:46.760
[Bob] Barry and the magazine’s
understanding is look

01:11:47.344 --> 01:11:50.013
life with spinal
cord injury is life

01:11:50.097 --> 01:11:51.640
life with disability is life

01:11:51.723 --> 01:11:54.518
so we're gonna cover
all facets of it.

01:11:56.437 --> 01:11:58.355
[Jennifer] How refreshing
for people who thought

01:11:58.439 --> 01:12:00.190
that part of their lives
was over.

01:12:01.316 --> 01:12:02.776
Dad brought it out into the open

01:12:02.860 --> 01:12:04.486
he highlighted it,
he addressed

01:12:05.028 --> 01:12:07.114
the good, the bad,
the ugly, and the beautiful

01:12:07.197 --> 01:12:09.533
about sexuality
when you're injured.

01:12:09.617 --> 01:12:11.494
[Trevor chuckling]

01:12:13.287 --> 01:12:16.582
[Trevor] Alright so this is
where I do my business.

01:12:19.293 --> 01:12:21.128
This is an adaptive sex chair.

01:12:21.211 --> 01:12:22.839
Basically I transfer in here

01:12:22.922 --> 01:12:24.507
and then I just
go back and forth.

01:12:26.216 --> 01:12:29.428
After my injury,
not being able to ejaculate

01:12:29.511 --> 01:12:31.889
like I used to,
this like gets me

01:12:31.972 --> 01:12:33.765
that feeling again and so…

01:12:34.683 --> 01:12:37.144
The upholstery is a little,
you know worn down.

01:12:37.227 --> 01:12:38.228
[Trevor laughs]

01:12:38.312 --> 01:12:39.356
I think I need to get this

01:12:39.439 --> 01:12:41.191
a little tightened,
reupholstered.

01:12:41.315 --> 01:12:42.441
[Trevor laughs]

01:12:42.524 --> 01:12:44.693
It makes me feel
like a man again

01:12:44.776 --> 01:12:45.652
[Trevor chuckles]
I’ll tell you that.

01:12:46.904 --> 01:12:48.611
[whimsical music playing]

01:12:53.118 --> 01:12:54.828
[Roy] Spinal cord
injuries, there’s

01:12:55.329 --> 01:12:56.830
things that you're
not prepared for.

01:12:58.040 --> 01:13:00.417
And we'll just be honest,
bowel and bladder are those.

01:13:01.835 --> 01:13:03.879
[Dr. Butt] When people
have injuries

01:13:03.962 --> 01:13:06.256
at a certain level and above

01:13:06.340 --> 01:13:09.093
they have dysfunction
of their ability

01:13:09.177 --> 01:13:11.179
to control the flow of urine.

01:13:11.803 --> 01:13:13.597
So it can occur at any time.

01:13:13.680 --> 01:13:16.892
[Trevor] We're about to drop in
on this little cliffy and

01:13:18.018 --> 01:13:19.770
light's a little flat but

01:13:20.938 --> 01:13:22.481
just gonna punt her
and feel her good.

01:13:23.565 --> 01:13:25.150
[Trevor sighs] God
I totally just pissed myself.

01:13:26.068 --> 01:13:28.570
-[producer chuckles]
-[Trevor] I didn’t mean to.

01:13:29.321 --> 01:13:32.157
Okay. Three, two, one dropping!

01:13:32.699 --> 01:13:33.242
[producer] Drop!

01:13:39.414 --> 01:13:40.249
[people cheering]

01:13:42.626 --> 01:13:44.253
[Bob] Accidents are gonna happen

01:13:45.003 --> 01:13:46.797
and you have two choices.

01:13:47.297 --> 01:13:50.467
It can be devastating,
which it is.

01:13:51.718 --> 01:13:54.555
It can also be a funny story
later if you choose it.

01:13:57.766 --> 01:13:59.768
[Trevor] Can you grab a
catheter out of the zipper

01:14:00.477 --> 01:14:01.603
in my GoPro backpack?

01:14:03.188 --> 01:14:04.898
[Roy] If you're staying
properly hydrated

01:14:04.982 --> 01:14:07.025
that means you're gonna pee
eight to twelve times a day.

01:14:07.526 --> 01:14:08.527
[producer] What are you doing
over there Trevy?

01:14:09.027 --> 01:14:09.861
[Trevor] Taking a pee.

01:14:09.945 --> 01:14:10.862
-[producer] Yeah?
-[Trevor] Yeah.

01:14:10.946 --> 01:14:12.239
[producer] Why are you
behind the dumpster?

01:14:12.322 --> 01:14:15.033
‘Cause there’s
no bathroom I can get to.

01:14:17.286 --> 01:14:19.371
[Roy] And every time
you have to use a new catheter.

01:14:20.664 --> 01:14:22.291
Every time
that you want to go pee.

01:14:23.709 --> 01:14:25.460
If you're paying out of pocket

01:14:25.544 --> 01:14:28.005
a single catheter could cost you
up to 18 dollars.

01:14:28.964 --> 01:14:32.718
And so you could pay
up to 250 dollars a day

01:14:33.427 --> 01:14:34.469
just to go pee.

01:14:35.596 --> 01:14:37.097
It's just, it's not fair.

01:14:39.808 --> 01:14:41.226
[Trevor] Yo you should
take a picture of this

01:14:41.310 --> 01:14:42.269
the tube hanging out.

01:14:43.186 --> 01:14:44.646
[man chuckles] It's pretty
full on, it’s like--

01:14:44.730 --> 01:14:48.442
[Trevor] It’s just the truth.
The hard truth of it.

01:14:49.818 --> 01:14:53.947
[Dr. Butt] Barry talked about
how a gal wrote to him

01:14:54.031 --> 01:14:57.242
saying it was
mind boggling to her

01:14:57.326 --> 01:14:59.494
to even see advertisements

01:14:59.578 --> 01:15:04.041
about bladder management
and caths, catheters.

01:15:04.124 --> 01:15:08.253
And how she felt that there
truly was a community out there.

01:15:09.296 --> 01:15:10.547
[Ashley] I didn't know
anything about

01:15:10.631 --> 01:15:12.424
using catheters, suppositories.

01:15:12.507 --> 01:15:14.635
It is just,
it's the simplest things

01:15:14.718 --> 01:15:15.969
going to the bathroom is new

01:15:16.053 --> 01:15:18.180
it's hard, it takes forever.

01:15:18.263 --> 01:15:20.682
It's not an easy road.

01:15:21.725 --> 01:15:24.019
[Dr. Butt] A bowel program
is a routine

01:15:24.519 --> 01:15:27.147
hopefully each day
around the same time.

01:15:29.149 --> 01:15:31.318
[Roy] You have got to
put on a rubber glove

01:15:31.401 --> 01:15:34.279
take a suppository,
put it up inside you

01:15:34.780 --> 01:15:36.865
and then you've got to wait
a minimum of an hour

01:15:36.948 --> 01:15:39.409
to make sure that
your bowels completely empty.

01:15:43.163 --> 01:15:47.084
[Dr. Butt] People use what's
called digital stimulation

01:15:47.167 --> 01:15:50.379
where a finger is inserted
around the anus

01:15:50.921 --> 01:15:55.425
and it creates peristalsis
and evacuation of the bowels.

01:15:57.010 --> 01:15:59.554
It can be, in the
beginning, embarrassing

01:16:00.472 --> 01:16:04.059
time consuming,
it's one of the many

01:16:04.142 --> 01:16:07.062
inconveniences inherent
in the spinal injury.

01:16:07.229 --> 01:16:08.063
[shower running]

01:16:13.276 --> 01:16:15.487
[Bob] Learning how to live
with a spinal cord injury

01:16:15.570 --> 01:16:18.115
is like scuba diving
the rest of your life.

01:16:19.324 --> 01:16:21.243
Am I sitting on a soft cushion?

01:16:21.743 --> 01:16:22.869
Is my bladder full?

01:16:23.995 --> 01:16:26.498
You constantly have
to check these things

01:16:26.581 --> 01:16:27.749
that you can't feel.

01:16:31.002 --> 01:16:33.171
[Trevor] Living with a
spinal cord injury is hard.

01:16:34.423 --> 01:16:36.217
I mean definitely I get isolated

01:16:36.300 --> 01:16:38.261
and I definitely
have my ups and downs.

01:16:39.636 --> 01:16:43.056
Seeing people going for hikes
or doing anything like that

01:16:43.140 --> 01:16:44.933
you know, sometimes
it'll bum me out.

01:16:46.685 --> 01:16:49.855
Sometimes I do wish like
I could have that normalcy.

01:16:52.983 --> 01:16:56.570
[Roy] Trev and I talk weekly,
a lot of times daily.

01:16:56.903 --> 01:16:59.156
And you can tell
when Trevor's off

01:16:59.698 --> 01:17:01.074
because he becomes very silent.

01:17:01.575 --> 01:17:03.034
And I think
one of the things that

01:17:03.118 --> 01:17:05.787
I really recognize is
when Trevor’s like that is like

01:17:06.413 --> 01:17:07.998
we gotta get him back outside.

01:17:10.250 --> 01:17:12.669
We gotta get him back out
doing the things he loves.

01:17:13.170 --> 01:17:14.756
[machinery operating]

01:17:26.016 --> 01:17:27.768
We do some
custom projects like Trevor

01:17:27.851 --> 01:17:31.104
but for the most part we design
skis for disabled skiers.

01:17:33.231 --> 01:17:34.733
Help people get back
on the mountain

01:17:34.816 --> 01:17:36.109
or find it for the first time.

01:17:36.651 --> 01:17:38.820
[Trevor] Dude so my idea
is gonna be genius.

01:17:38.904 --> 01:17:39.780
I’m telling you.

01:17:39.863 --> 01:17:42.365
[Bobby] I kind of understood it
on the phone which scared me.

01:17:42.449 --> 01:17:43.492
[Trevor laughing] I know right?

01:17:44.618 --> 01:17:46.578
[Bobby] So we’ll just tie like a

01:17:46.661 --> 01:17:48.497
-Six inch pull loop so you can--
-[Trevor] Something to my mouth.

01:17:48.997 --> 01:17:49.956
[Bobby] To your mouth?

01:17:50.040 --> 01:17:51.625
[Trevor] Dude,
well here’s the thing

01:17:51.708 --> 01:17:53.001
if I do it to my hand--

01:17:53.084 --> 01:17:55.212
[Bobby] Yeah you gotta be
one handed coming in.

01:17:55.295 --> 01:17:57.005
Right, and I don’t want
to be doing that.

01:17:57.589 --> 01:18:00.008
[Bobby] So you basically
want this to your mouth?

01:18:00.884 --> 01:18:02.719
Well that’s what I’m saying,
you know what I mean

01:18:02.803 --> 01:18:04.387
we’re adapting over here okay?

01:18:04.471 --> 01:18:05.598
[engine starts]

01:18:07.599 --> 01:18:09.309
[Bobby] So some skiers
use a motorized winch

01:18:09.392 --> 01:18:10.769
to get speed on flat ground.

01:18:12.229 --> 01:18:14.898
Able-bodied skiers use two hands
to hold on to the rope

01:18:14.981 --> 01:18:17.234
but Trevor needs his hands
to hold on to his outriggers.

01:18:18.193 --> 01:18:19.696
So we're building
a quick release system

01:18:19.779 --> 01:18:21.447
to attach that rope
to his sit ski.

01:18:22.280 --> 01:18:25.367
[Trevor] And the string is like
this short to release.

01:18:25.450 --> 01:18:26.201
Does that make sense?

01:18:26.785 --> 01:18:28.620
-[Bobby] All we can do is try.
-[Trevor] Yeah.

01:18:28.703 --> 01:18:29.579
[Bobby] We’re in new territory.

01:18:30.216 --> 01:18:31.374
[Grinder starts]

01:18:35.359 --> 01:18:37.277
[Power tools buzzing]

01:18:47.681 --> 01:18:48.640
[Trevor] Okay you ready?

01:18:51.268 --> 01:18:54.437
Dude this is exciting stuff.

01:19:09.327 --> 01:19:11.079
[Trevor] I’m sweating,
I’m all nervous.

01:19:13.915 --> 01:19:14.583
[Trevor] Nuh uh.

01:19:16.376 --> 01:19:17.627
[producer] Why are you
gonna do this?

01:19:18.712 --> 01:19:19.796
‘Cause it's
never been done

01:19:20.714 --> 01:19:21.548
and I want to.

01:19:25.552 --> 01:19:26.928
I'm gonna get towed in

01:19:27.012 --> 01:19:28.680
I'm gonna pull the
quick release with my mouth

01:19:29.347 --> 01:19:31.308
and then I'm gonna
jump that jump

01:19:31.391 --> 01:19:32.726
and then the landing’s
right there.

01:19:33.685 --> 01:19:35.645
Even though I'm paralyzed,
you know you only see

01:19:35.729 --> 01:19:37.981
able-bodied people
hitting street or urban.

01:19:38.690 --> 01:19:41.151
And you know, me being
in a wheelchair it’s like

01:19:41.234 --> 01:19:42.569
“Oh wait, you even ski?”

01:19:43.111 --> 01:19:45.363
And it's just funny ‘cause
people have no idea.

01:19:45.447 --> 01:19:46.907
You know I just
want to keep evolving it

01:19:46.990 --> 01:19:49.242
and keep pushing the boundaries,
and keep progressing

01:19:49.743 --> 01:19:53.288
and I think this is one step
in that direction.

01:19:57.500 --> 01:19:59.002
[winch motor running]

01:20:02.756 --> 01:20:04.299
[Trevor] Yeah Cody!

01:20:04.966 --> 01:20:05.926
[Trevor yelling] Woo!

01:20:07.135 --> 01:20:08.011
[Trevor laughing]

01:20:12.474 --> 01:20:13.975
[music intensifies]

01:20:30.784 --> 01:20:31.618
[Trevor] It’s getting caught.

01:20:32.619 --> 01:20:34.162
Yo this thing is getting caught.

01:20:34.246 --> 01:20:35.748
[Trevor exhales deeply]

01:20:41.753 --> 01:20:42.837
Can we do this one more time?

01:20:43.838 --> 01:20:44.631
[Trevor groans]

01:20:44.714 --> 01:20:46.007
[man] Got it? Feeling good?

01:20:46.091 --> 01:20:46.925
-[Trevor] Yeah.
-[man] Yeah?

01:20:49.846 --> 01:20:51.013
[Trevor breathes deeply]

01:20:51.054 --> 01:20:53.640
[Trevor] Okay. Just hold on
as long as possible.

01:20:55.684 --> 01:20:57.560
Hold on as long as
possible baby.

01:20:58.855 --> 01:21:00.105
[outriggers click]

01:21:00.939 --> 01:21:01.898
[man] Here we go!

01:21:26.965 --> 01:21:28.967
[muffled cheering]

01:21:39.811 --> 01:21:41.813
[man] Holy cow, dude.

01:21:41.896 --> 01:21:44.482
-Trev that was fucking massive.
-[Trevor] My fucking neck.

01:21:55.035 --> 01:21:56.411
-[man 1] Yeah.
-[man 2] For sure.

01:21:56.494 --> 01:21:57.579
[producer] Dude,
if you’re not feeling it

01:21:57.662 --> 01:21:59.831
the last thing I want
you to do is go and try--

01:21:59.914 --> 01:22:01.082
[Trevor] I’m just
pissed at myself

01:22:01.166 --> 01:22:02.584
because I know
I could have had it.

01:22:02.667 --> 01:22:03.543
I know, I just--

01:22:03.626 --> 01:22:06.463
I just know I could
have had it, it just…

01:22:07.590 --> 01:22:08.674
[Trevor groans]

01:22:08.757 --> 01:22:11.051
I’m not gonna be able to move
my shoulder tomorrow morning.

01:22:15.430 --> 01:22:18.641
[Roy] Is a sit ski meant
to go upside down? No.

01:22:19.184 --> 01:22:21.519
The purpose was
to return people to skiing

01:22:22.228 --> 01:22:23.313
not to go upside down

01:22:23.396 --> 01:22:25.690
and flip a 50 pound piece
of metal underneath you.

01:22:29.736 --> 01:22:31.488
[Trevor] Last night at dinner

01:22:31.571 --> 01:22:33.823
even like an hour after,
I just couldn’t really like

01:22:34.324 --> 01:22:35.700
it just kept hurting
and hurting.

01:22:37.285 --> 01:22:39.954
I just literally cannot
like lift my arm

01:22:40.038 --> 01:22:42.290
it hurts so bad,
right here on the

01:22:43.249 --> 01:22:45.585
I think collarbone or shoulder,
one or the other.

01:22:50.800 --> 01:22:52.468
My shoulders are so important

01:22:52.551 --> 01:22:54.053
because they’re
basically my feet.

01:22:54.594 --> 01:22:56.179
And without them

01:22:56.262 --> 01:22:58.765
I can't push my wheelchair
so I can get around.

01:23:05.355 --> 01:23:06.481
[Trevor groans]
It's kind of wild when it's like

01:23:06.564 --> 01:23:08.691
you're wheelchair bound
and then you’re just like

01:23:09.484 --> 01:23:10.735
“Oh there goes one arm.”

01:23:11.653 --> 01:23:15.156
But transfer still
independently, it’s like

01:23:16.950 --> 01:23:19.077
the rest of my,
like half my body doesn't work

01:23:19.160 --> 01:23:20.662
now you're taking out
another limb?

01:23:21.162 --> 01:23:22.163
[Trevor laughing]
You know what I mean?

01:23:22.622 --> 01:23:23.998
Then it’s like dude

01:23:24.082 --> 01:23:27.335
you're down to like
one out of four working limbs.

01:23:29.045 --> 01:23:30.839
It's definitely a wakeup call
too I guess but

01:23:31.840 --> 01:23:33.675
am I gonna stop
doing what I'm doing? No.

01:23:34.593 --> 01:23:36.400
[acoustic guitar plays]

01:23:41.057 --> 01:23:43.685
[Bob] When I met Barry
in the early ‘90s

01:23:43.768 --> 01:23:46.646
his shoulders were
already starting to go.

01:23:47.147 --> 01:23:49.315
He was already
starting to wear out.

01:23:50.567 --> 01:23:52.360
[Dr. Butt] In his latter years

01:23:52.443 --> 01:23:55.488
in spite of being
in a power chair

01:23:55.572 --> 01:23:57.949
he really was
at peace with himself.

01:23:58.366 --> 01:24:02.078
Not fighting the injury,
fighting who he was

01:24:02.579 --> 01:24:05.582
but really so much
more comfortable

01:24:05.666 --> 01:24:07.209
in his own personhood.

01:24:11.296 --> 01:24:13.047
[Bob] Somewhere around 2003

01:24:13.131 --> 01:24:15.091
Barry was diagnosed
with bladder cancer.

01:24:17.051 --> 01:24:18.511
The doctor told Barry

01:24:18.595 --> 01:24:20.221
the toll it was gonna take

01:24:20.305 --> 01:24:22.932
that it was going to
make his already frail body

01:24:23.016 --> 01:24:24.976
much worse with the chemo.

01:24:27.270 --> 01:24:30.690
And at that point, they knew
it was pretty widespread.

01:24:30.773 --> 01:24:33.943
He elected not to do
further treatment.

01:24:38.740 --> 01:24:40.700
[Dr. Hornbein sniffles]
And that was it.

01:24:43.203 --> 01:24:44.078
[Roger sighs] Well…

01:24:46.164 --> 01:24:47.582
What can I say?

01:24:47.665 --> 01:24:51.044
I miss him, a lot.

01:24:51.127 --> 01:24:53.213
You know meeting Barry

01:24:53.296 --> 01:24:55.131
and going into business with him

01:24:55.215 --> 01:25:00.470
and becoming
close friends with him is…

01:25:02.096 --> 01:25:04.140
the highlight of my life.

01:25:05.016 --> 01:25:06.434
[sighs] He'd be pissed
at me for crying.

01:25:06.518 --> 01:25:07.561
[Bob laughs]

01:25:07.644 --> 01:25:14.192
Um… the wild thing
is I got word of that

01:25:14.275 --> 01:25:18.821
and about four days later
my wife says

01:25:18.905 --> 01:25:20.490
“You got this letter.”

01:25:20.573 --> 01:25:26.496
From Barry… startling,
two weeks after his death.

01:25:32.043 --> 01:25:35.004
[Dr. Butt sniffles] Okay.
"Dear friends

01:25:35.088 --> 01:25:37.133
a very large part of my life

01:25:37.216 --> 01:25:40.803
is the friendships
that develop over the years."

01:25:40.927 --> 01:25:44.597
"As many of you already know
my life is now over.

01:25:44.681 --> 01:25:46.849
The reason you're getting
this letter is that

01:25:46.933 --> 01:25:49.978
yours is one of the friendships
I've treasured

01:25:50.061 --> 01:25:52.021
and I want you to know that."

01:25:53.015 --> 01:25:54.608
[Dr. Butt] "I'm
a little saddened

01:25:54.691 --> 01:25:55.901
to be leaving a little earlier

01:25:56.006 --> 01:25:59.487
than expected,
but feel no sense of tragedy.

01:25:59.570 --> 01:26:02.699
I've lived a lot longer
than I ever could have

01:26:02.783 --> 01:26:04.201
or would have predicted

01:26:05.103 --> 01:26:09.065
36 years ago
after the helicopter crash.

01:26:09.789 --> 01:26:12.750
I have no fears for my children

01:26:12.834 --> 01:26:15.003
who are all embarked
on their own roads

01:26:15.086 --> 01:26:18.798
and doing it with
astonishing style and grace."

01:26:18.881 --> 01:26:23.219
[Bob] "I've had love
overflowing, impassioned careers

01:26:23.303 --> 01:26:27.181
a life of adventure
and everything I’ve ever wanted.

01:26:27.265 --> 01:26:29.767
Nothing missed, no regrets."

01:26:32.937 --> 01:26:34.147
[Dr Butt] "My love to you all

01:26:34.230 --> 01:26:35.815
Signed, Barry."

01:26:36.774 --> 01:26:37.608
"Barry."

01:26:38.693 --> 01:26:40.486
And that was him.

01:26:41.446 --> 01:26:42.906
If I could have done it
in his voice

01:26:42.990 --> 01:26:44.574
it would have been just casual

01:26:44.699 --> 01:26:47.118
with kind of a smile
in the background.

01:26:53.082 --> 01:26:54.543
[Dr. Hornbein] In the obit
that I wrote

01:26:54.626 --> 01:26:56.461
for The American Alpine
Club Journal

01:26:56.586 --> 01:27:00.048
I had to pause and wonder

01:27:00.131 --> 01:27:02.926
what Barry's life
might have been

01:27:03.010 --> 01:27:04.887
if he had not been paralyzed.

01:27:08.014 --> 01:27:11.100
[Jennifer] Dad divided his life
into two sections.

01:27:11.184 --> 01:27:13.603
There was his first life
which was pre-accident

01:27:13.686 --> 01:27:16.272
and his second life
which was post-accident.

01:27:16.356 --> 01:27:18.775
And it wasn't until
his later years

01:27:18.858 --> 01:27:21.527
that he really considered
it to be one life.

01:27:22.570 --> 01:27:24.572
It was all as he
would have said

01:27:24.655 --> 01:27:26.616
“part and parcel
of the same thing.”

01:27:27.950 --> 01:27:29.369
I did ask him one time

01:27:29.452 --> 01:27:32.248
which half of his life
meant more to him

01:27:32.372 --> 01:27:35.249
and I mean he said it was
the second half of his life.

01:27:36.584 --> 01:27:39.170
He had learned so much
and grown so much.

01:27:40.630 --> 01:27:46.010
He gave hope to people
with spinal cord injury

01:27:46.094 --> 01:27:48.262
around the world
and continues to.

01:27:49.972 --> 01:27:52.934
He taught doctors,
he taught insurance companies

01:27:53.017 --> 01:27:56.687
he taught regular old people
how to look at disability

01:27:56.771 --> 01:27:58.773
in new ways
that they'd never thought of.

01:28:00.817 --> 01:28:03.236
[Muffy] It was never his goal
to be a leader.

01:28:03.319 --> 01:28:04.987
He became one but

01:28:05.071 --> 01:28:07.824
the point for him was
what he was doing.

01:28:07.907 --> 01:28:10.743
He didn't announce himself
as being a leader

01:28:10.827 --> 01:28:13.079
follow me, but people did.

01:28:16.874 --> 01:28:18.001
Among skiers

01:28:18.085 --> 01:28:21.255
Barry's legacy lives
in Corbet's Couloir

01:28:21.379 --> 01:28:23.172
but he left so much more behind.

01:28:25.133 --> 01:28:27.343
[Jennifer] Ski The Outer Limits
is so much about

01:28:27.427 --> 01:28:29.512
pushing edges,
and being willing to

01:28:30.012 --> 01:28:31.556
reinvent things. And…

01:28:32.056 --> 01:28:35.268
I think pushing limits
was part of Dad’s nature.

01:28:37.770 --> 01:28:41.816
He really made people
rethink disability

01:28:41.899 --> 01:28:45.903
and I think the world
will never be the same for that.

01:28:50.241 --> 01:28:52.535
[Roger] Barry's legacy
is taking a

01:28:53.370 --> 01:28:55.998
terrible accident
and turning it into

01:28:56.122 --> 01:28:59.793
a wonderful gift
to everybody that

01:28:59.793 --> 01:29:01.711
has followed
with a similar accident.

01:29:03.005 --> 01:29:04.046
Giving them hope.

01:29:05.715 --> 01:29:07.592
He gave them something
they didn't have.

01:29:09.582 --> 01:29:10.793
[Trevor sighs]

01:29:30.657 --> 01:29:33.784
It's pretty crazy looking back
at everything you know?

01:29:34.660 --> 01:29:35.953
[Trevor sniffles]

01:29:38.998 --> 01:29:45.087
I’m just so thankful…
to be where I am right now.

01:29:55.515 --> 01:29:57.517
You don't know what
you have until it’s gone.

01:29:58.017 --> 01:29:58.935
No one does.

01:29:59.435 --> 01:30:00.728
But looking back on it

01:30:02.063 --> 01:30:04.190
I'm injured,
and I’m in a wheelchair

01:30:04.273 --> 01:30:05.775
and it's like dude,
I do more than

01:30:06.402 --> 01:30:07.819
half the able-bodied people do.

01:30:07.944 --> 01:30:09.487
You know it is just,
it's a mentality.

01:30:09.570 --> 01:30:11.072
It's just you go get stuff done.

01:30:19.872 --> 01:30:21.582
I was definitely scared
to come back here.

01:30:23.000 --> 01:30:23.960
Very scared.

01:30:25.795 --> 01:30:28.005
This place has taken
so much away from me

01:30:28.089 --> 01:30:30.925
and you know
I want to come back here

01:30:31.008 --> 01:30:34.011
I want to…
make myself whole again.

01:30:36.097 --> 01:30:38.015
I want to close that circle

01:30:38.099 --> 01:30:40.059
and make my heart
not hurt anymore.

01:30:43.813 --> 01:30:45.898
[Roy] Take that day
that you had this injury

01:30:45.982 --> 01:30:48.109
and then how do you
grow from that?

01:30:50.573 --> 01:30:52.739
What if you could get back
to the sport you love

01:30:52.811 --> 01:30:55.481
in the place that changed
your life forever?

01:30:56.492 --> 01:30:58.452
How empowering could that be?

01:30:59.409 --> 01:31:00.788
And I think that's just like

01:31:00.871 --> 01:31:02.999
what Trevor took as an idea

01:31:03.083 --> 01:31:04.960
and took it
to the highest level.

01:31:08.797 --> 01:31:10.632
One of Trevor's biggest goals

01:31:10.715 --> 01:31:14.511
was to become
the first person ever to land

01:31:14.844 --> 01:31:16.430
a double backflip in a sit ski.

01:31:18.514 --> 01:31:20.975
And Vail Pass
was the place to do it.

01:31:24.186 --> 01:31:25.688
[Olga] He said, “Mom

01:31:27.815 --> 01:31:28.608
this is…

01:31:30.985 --> 01:31:33.237
my mountain,
this is where I broke my back.

01:31:33.321 --> 01:31:38.159
And I came back,
and I persevered my injury.

01:31:38.826 --> 01:31:41.370
I persevered what happened Mom.

01:31:41.871 --> 01:31:43.247
I've accomplished…

01:31:45.374 --> 01:31:46.459
and I'm back Mom.

01:31:49.003 --> 01:31:49.879
I'm back.”

01:32:02.433 --> 01:32:03.684
[Olga] Nice job babe.

01:32:03.768 --> 01:32:04.977
I'm proud of you.

01:32:05.061 --> 01:32:07.146
[Trevor] Check the jump out Mom.

01:32:07.229 --> 01:32:11.317
[Olga gasps] Oh--
Oh my god.

01:32:11.400 --> 01:32:18.157
Trevor, Trevor. Jesus.

01:32:18.616 --> 01:32:20.284
You've gotta be kidding me.

01:32:20.785 --> 01:32:22.244
Where are you gonna land?

01:32:22.370 --> 01:32:26.123
Oh my god Trevor, wow.

01:32:26.624 --> 01:32:29.085
There's the jump, right there.

01:32:30.753 --> 01:32:33.130
[producer] So hey guys,
we’re like two minutes out

01:32:33.214 --> 01:32:35.549
from Trevor speed checking.

01:32:35.633 --> 01:32:37.219
I'm gonna leave it
up to you all

01:32:37.302 --> 01:32:38.928
to help Trevor get ready

01:32:39.053 --> 01:32:40.721
so I can shoot
and get in position.

01:32:43.349 --> 01:32:44.517
[Trevor] Push it in.

01:32:44.600 --> 01:32:45.893
Alright, ready one, two, three.

01:32:52.566 --> 01:32:54.402
[man] Where are you
planning on taking off the lip?

01:32:56.987 --> 01:32:57.863
When you hit it

01:32:57.947 --> 01:33:00.616
where's your ideal spot
you're looking to hit it doggy?

01:33:01.492 --> 01:33:03.661
That's what I always like to do
is pick out where I’m headed.

01:33:03.744 --> 01:33:05.454
[Trevor] So I just have to be…

01:33:05.538 --> 01:33:08.082
when I come in, come in,
come in, pop!

01:33:08.165 --> 01:33:10.418
You know just pop,
and then just hold.

01:33:10.501 --> 01:33:12.670
Once I see it,
I just want to make sure I--

01:33:12.753 --> 01:33:13.921
[man] Have enough air time.

01:33:14.046 --> 01:33:15.923
[Trevor] I will,
I think I will but

01:33:16.006 --> 01:33:17.550
I just wanna make sure,
you know.

01:33:20.720 --> 01:33:23.806
[man] Boom yo! Yessir.

01:33:23.889 --> 01:33:26.726
[Trevor] Alright,
I’m ready for it dude.

01:33:31.079 --> 01:33:33.599
[narrator] Your injury
is an epic thing.

01:33:35.527 --> 01:33:37.820
It reeks of mythic heroism.

01:33:39.488 --> 01:33:40.531
Wanna be a hero?

01:33:42.950 --> 01:33:45.619
The fact is…
you have little choice.

01:33:48.080 --> 01:33:50.154
Having died to a portion
of the past

01:33:51.333 --> 01:33:53.836
having passed
through the fires of initiation

01:33:53.919 --> 01:33:55.505
and prevailed over all obstacles

01:33:56.214 --> 01:33:57.966
the hero is ready
to make visible

01:33:58.049 --> 01:34:00.051
his rebirth as a more
complete being

01:34:00.676 --> 01:34:01.970
by returning to the world.

01:34:04.388 --> 01:34:05.724
We are the twice born.

01:34:07.267 --> 01:34:08.477
We represent to humanity

01:34:08.560 --> 01:34:10.729
its greatest fears
of catastrophe

01:34:10.853 --> 01:34:12.814
and its greatest hopes
of transcendence.

01:34:14.399 --> 01:34:16.693
We have embarked
upon the hero's path

01:34:16.776 --> 01:34:18.236
and we have no choice.

01:34:20.196 --> 01:34:21.281
To others

01:34:21.364 --> 01:34:23.116
our transcendence
is the proof of our

01:34:23.263 --> 01:34:24.660
heroic energy and direction.

01:34:26.536 --> 01:34:28.497
[narrator] To ourselves

01:34:28.580 --> 01:34:29.539
our energy and direction

01:34:29.623 --> 01:34:31.874
derive from
the need to transcend

01:34:33.417 --> 01:34:35.420
because there’s
no other way to survive.

01:34:36.504 --> 01:34:38.964
[radio] Berman here
can I get a status check?

01:34:39.048 --> 01:34:39.966
Status check, please.

01:34:44.178 --> 01:34:47.098
[radio] Still holding up top.

01:34:49.350 --> 01:34:51.018
[man] Just let me know
when you're 30 or so out.

01:34:56.106 --> 01:34:56.941
[Trevor exhales deeply] Alright.

01:34:57.024 --> 01:34:57.817
[man] Ready?

01:34:59.485 --> 01:35:00.986
30 seconds until drop

01:35:01.070 --> 01:35:03.989
30 seconds then there’ll be
a five second countdown.

01:35:06.116 --> 01:35:06.951
[Trevor exhales]

01:35:08.786 --> 01:35:10.246
[man] You've got this dude.

01:35:16.293 --> 01:35:18.546
[man] Everybody is ready to go.

01:35:18.629 --> 01:35:19.463
Everybody ready.

01:35:22.925 --> 01:35:23.551
[radio] Copy.

01:35:24.844 --> 01:35:26.178
Ready, ready, ready.

01:35:28.473 --> 01:35:29.474
Ready down here.

01:35:31.142 --> 01:35:32.561
Ready up here.

01:35:35.813 --> 01:35:36.647
[man] Yeah brother.

01:35:36.690 --> 01:35:39.401
Alright, dropping
in five seconds.

01:35:39.484 --> 01:35:40.985
Dropping in five seconds.

01:35:42.320 --> 01:35:44.447
-[man] Drop in five, four…
-[Trevor] Let’s do this baby.

01:35:44.572 --> 01:35:47.950
[man] Three, two,
one, dropping in.

01:35:48.033 --> 01:35:49.411
[orchestral music builds]

01:36:01.463 --> 01:36:04.925
[radio] Three, two, one…

01:36:24.028 --> 01:36:25.738
[muffled cheering]

01:36:41.420 --> 01:36:42.672
[Trevor cheers]

01:36:43.632 --> 01:36:44.758
[Trevor yelling] Woo!

01:36:45.633 --> 01:36:47.217
[Trevor] Let's go!

01:36:47.302 --> 01:36:49.429
[Ashley and Olga cheering]

01:36:51.139 --> 01:36:52.766
[Trevor cheering]

01:36:54.951 --> 01:36:56.197
[Trevor laughing] Let's go!

01:36:57.270 --> 01:36:59.188
[Ashley] That was
fucking insane.

01:36:59.271 --> 01:37:00.814
-[Olga laughing]
-[Trevor] Let's go!

01:37:00.899 --> 01:37:03.443
[friend and Trevor laughing]

01:37:03.526 --> 01:37:05.153
Oh, let's go!

01:37:09.114 --> 01:37:09.949
Wow.

01:37:10.492 --> 01:37:12.201
[Ashley] Nice job Trevy.

01:37:12.786 --> 01:37:14.954
[Trevor] I may or may not
have cried over there.

01:37:16.080 --> 01:37:17.290
-[Trevor exhales deeply]
-[Ashley] I’m so proud of you.

01:37:17.373 --> 01:37:18.708
Oh my goodness.

01:37:19.668 --> 01:37:21.001
[Trevor] Redemption Mom.

01:37:21.085 --> 01:37:23.045
-[Olga] Redemption.
-[Trevor] Redemption.

01:37:27.007 --> 01:37:29.802
[narrator] The last hot tip,
final admonishment

01:37:29.885 --> 01:37:31.220
and parting shot.

01:37:34.515 --> 01:37:37.643
Of course we don’t
often choose our adventures.

01:37:39.061 --> 01:37:41.355
The best adventures befall us.

01:37:45.484 --> 01:37:48.237
A parallel trick
of living with a disability

01:37:48.320 --> 01:37:51.323
is to see all and everything
as an adventure.

01:37:52.783 --> 01:37:54.703
One that endows every moment

01:37:55.411 --> 01:37:57.330
with all the most
adventuresome qualities.

01:37:58.706 --> 01:38:03.043
Uncertainty and risk,
richness and joy

01:38:04.253 --> 01:38:05.921
deliberation and daring.

01:38:08.716 --> 01:38:10.968
We crystallize for ourselves
and for others

01:38:11.635 --> 01:38:13.887
the real fact and fear
of calamity.

01:38:15.514 --> 01:38:19.435
If we reinforce this image,
we invite sympathy and sorrow.

01:38:21.228 --> 01:38:22.271
If we proceed apace

01:38:23.188 --> 01:38:26.900
we are inspirations…
to everyone.

01:38:29.361 --> 01:38:31.905
We should not
be afraid to inspire.

01:38:34.950 --> 01:38:36.535
The world needs it badly

01:38:38.037 --> 01:38:41.373
and we need the experience
of giving extravagantly.

01:38:44.209 --> 01:38:46.378
Our gift to the world

01:38:46.462 --> 01:38:50.799
is the world's gift… to us.

01:38:51.592 --> 01:38:55.345
Everybody, able-bodied
and disabled alike

01:38:57.347 --> 01:39:00.059
should take the money and run.

01:39:04.313 --> 01:39:09.151
Barry Corbet, Lookout Mountain,
Colorado, 1980.

01:39:42.684 --> 01:39:45.145
[”Who I am” playing]

01:40:15.843 --> 01:40:18.679
♪ I am imaginary boundaries ♪

01:40:20.472 --> 01:40:22.850
♪ I am peculiarly drawn ♪

01:40:26.895 --> 01:40:29.481
♪ I am a cause
for some discomfort ♪

01:40:31.985 --> 01:40:34.111
♪ I am a need for public works ♪

01:40:37.907 --> 01:40:39.868
♪ I need directions
to the hospital ♪

01:40:42.620 --> 01:40:44.705
♪ I need a 90's mini van ♪

01:40:48.584 --> 01:40:50.669
♪ I need directions
to the water ♪

01:40:53.422 --> 01:40:55.340
♪ And I need a trailer
in the sand ♪

01:40:56.592 --> 01:40:57.635
♪ It's what I am ♪

01:41:21.492 --> 01:41:23.786
♪ I am avoiding certain irony ♪

01:41:26.664 --> 01:41:28.540
♪ I am evolving in the night ♪

01:41:32.628 --> 01:41:34.756
♪ I am awarding the authority ♪

01:41:37.717 --> 01:41:39.635
♪ I am completely in the fight ♪

01:41:43.639 --> 01:41:45.766
♪ I need a local anesthesia ♪

01:41:48.519 --> 01:41:50.396
♪ I need a place
to stay the night ♪

01:41:54.067 --> 01:41:56.069
♪ I need an alternate reality ♪

01:41:58.821 --> 01:42:00.698
♪ And I need
an incandescent light ♪

01:42:04.953 --> 01:42:06.913
♪ I need a world that shows me ♪

01:42:10.625 --> 01:42:12.877
♪ All of the reasons
that it chose me ♪

01:42:16.172 --> 01:42:18.091
♪ I need a world that shows me ♪

01:42:21.427 --> 01:42:23.679
♪ All of the seasons
of the old me ♪

01:42:26.682 --> 01:42:28.851
♪ I need a world that shows me ♪

01:42:30.895 --> 01:42:33.022
♪ A brand new way
to give a damn ♪

01:42:34.941 --> 01:42:36.109
♪ It’s what I am ♪