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Update #6: Summit

Posted on October 21, 2009

Hello all,

Thanks so much for all of your support. It was a disappointment not to reach our fundraising goals on Kickstarter, but looking back they might have been a bit too lofty. Despite not reaching our goals here, we were able to make the climb and we have some wonderful footage that will become an entertaining and meaningful movie. We were also able to donate wheelchairs and handcycles to people in Africa, as well purchase a prosthetic leg to assist Tajiri, the first Tanzanian leg amputee to reach the summit.

We had great coverage from CBS Sunday Evening News three Sundays in a row during the trip. If you would like to see the footage, photos or the daily blogs from the mountain--some of which were texted from above 17,000 feet, please visit our website: www.one-revolution.org. It was a great journey or safari as they say in Swahili.

Though reaching the top of the tallest freestanding mountain in the world was the moment of a lifetime, our work is just beginning. Our goals have been visibility and opportunity. We have a great start, but now we approach the most difficult and expensive part, turning the footage that CBS called "amazing" into an equally amazing film that tells the story of how despite shortcomings, we find it within ourselves to achieve amazing things, and how people like Tajiri, who thought much of his life had ended when he lost his leg in a rock slide on the mountain, can change the lives of so many others when given a helping hand.

Thanks for all of your help. I hope that we can count on you as fans as One Revolution attempts to create social change one revolution at a time.

All my best,
Chris
www.one-revolution.org


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      MakerBeam on October 21, 2009

      Chris,

      You are the great success story here. Your work through Kickstarter only adds to that.

      Congratulations.

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      Mimi Cummins on October 21, 2009

      Chris, congratulations on your remarkable achievement! I've been following your story with interest.

      Can you please post info on how we can send our pledges to you? Kickstart may have failed, but YOU didn't, and I'd really like my original pledge to get to you somehow. Thanks.

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      Yeop Azman on October 22, 2009

      You are definately my hero. i'm handicapped due to a heartbreak and can just sit at home doing nothing.


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Chris broke his back in a skiing accident on December 20, 1988 while a member of the Middlebury College ski team. He was 20 years old. After two months in the hospital he returned to Middlebury for the spring semester. Three days short of the accident's first anniversary, he started to ski in a monoski--okay, ski might be a bit of a stretch, he started to fall down in a monoski. Within two years, he was named to the US Disabled Ski Team.

During his career he won more Paralmypic skiing medals (12) than any man in history. In 1994, he swept all four (slalom, giant slalom, super G, and downhill) events at the Paralympics in Lillehammer, Norway. In all, Chris competed in four winter Paralympics (Albertville, Lillehammer, Nagano, and Salt Lake City), yet he was also part of a select handful who competed in both the winter and summer Games, where he competed in three Paralympics (Atlanta, Sydney, and Athens). He won a silver medal in the 200 meters wheelchair racing in Sydney, and also won the 200 meters at the World Championships in Birmingham, England, joining a very elite group to win World Championships in a summer and winter sport.

In addition to his competition, Chris co-founded the Sarah Will and Chris Waddell Instructional Monoski Camp, which provided the starting ground for many future members of the US Disabled Ski Team, and others who just wanted to enjoy the sport more. He graduated from Middlebury with a degree in International Politics and Economics, acted in the soap opera "Loving," and was one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 1998. He moved to Park City prior to the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and Paralymics, though he grew up in Massachusetts.