Surmounting The Insurmountable

[Buenchico]

Felix Klieser proving that sometimes the seemingly impossible can still become possible if one tries hard enough:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59312659

[piggynose]

thanks for psoting this chris, i´m lost for words.

[piggynose]

*posting

[bhg481]

I saw it on BBC Breakfast this morning. An amazing performance. They were clever enough to say he had no arms and then show him from an angle which only showed the end of the digits operating the valves before showing a full-length shot where he has his leg curled up to get his foot on the valves.

[Mamyalynne]

I loved that little smile when he said 'They told me it was not possible' - a red rag to someone determined.

Brilliant.

[Buenchico]

Thanks, Piggy and Bhg.

It's good to see the BBC covering the story. I believe that publicity for the achievements of people with disabilities (whether that be deaf musicians like Felix Klieser and Evelyn Glennie, academics with motor neurone disease like the late Stephen Hawkin or even AB's own incredibly talented blind artist, Woodelf) can help to overcome preconceptions and prejudices against such people.

[Buenchico]

Thanks too, Mamya ;-)

[pastafreak]

Amazing, and inspiring.

[Patsy33]

Where there's a will...
Wonderful to see such determination.
One happy man.

[pastafreak]

And don't forget the deaf actress Rose Aysling-Ellis who has proved to be an extraordinary dancer on Strictly Come Dancing.

[Buenchico]

I don't watch Strictly, Pasta, but I've read about her achievements which seem amazing to me. Like Evelyn Glennie, she picks up sound through her feet but, unlike Evelyn Glennie, the nature of dancing means that she can't keep her feet on the ground all of the time!

If feel that the name of Helen Keller ought to be better known. Despite being both deaf and blind, she obtained a university degree, wrote numerous books and gave lectures in dozens of countries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

[maggiebee]

We have our own amazing woman in Dundee - Marilyn Gillies Carr. Marilyn was born without arms but that didn't stop her from driving an adapted car, being one of the fastest typists at school and securing employment as a shorthand/typist with the NCR. She went on to marry and wore her wedding ring on a toe.

[Buenchico]

. . . and author too, Maggie!
https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/22465425482.jpg