In wheelchair, paraplegic climbs up skyscraper
Lai Chi-wai became the earliest in Hong Kong to climb a lot more than 250 meters of a skyscraper while strapped into a wheelchair as he pulled himself up for a lot more than 10 time on Saturday to improve money for spinal-cord patients. The 37-year-older climber, whose car crash 10 years ago still left him paralyzed from waist down, cannot generate it to the most notable of the 300 metre-high Nina Tower on the Kowloon peninsula.
"I was quite scared," Lai stated. "Climbing up a mountain, I can store rocks or little holes, but with glass, all I can really count on may be the rope that I'm hanging off." The event raised HK$5.2 million ($670,639) in donations. Lai, prior to 2011, was crowned Asia champion four circumstances for climbing and at one level ranked eighth globally.
After his accident, he resumed climbing by attaching his wheelchair to a pulley system. Five years back he ascended the 495-metre excessive Lion Rock mountain, an area folk tradition symbol of Hong Kong's durability and grit. "Aside from just living, I wondered what drives me? So I commenced to chase that, knowing that there was a possibility I could climb mountains, possibly in a wheelchair," Lai said. "In ways, I forgot that I was a disabled person, I could still desire and I could even now do what I liked doing." Although he did not produce it to the most notable of the skyscraper, because of safety considerations, Lai hoped to mail a message.
"Some people hardly understand the down sides of disabled people, some people feel that we are generally weak, we are looking for help, we are in need of assistance, we need people's pity," Lai said.
"But, I desire to tell everyone, it doesn't have to be like that. If a disabled person can shine, they are able to at the same time bring about opportunity, hope, bring about light, they don't really have to be seen as weak."
