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"THOSE STAIRS AREN'T SUPPOSE TO BE THERE"
The Great Wall snakes across the mountains in China's high country. In many places, ancient stone stairs are the only route op to the wall. Faced with the impossible reality that he can not climb the steep, narrow stone entrance, Rick is quick to frustration. His long held dream hangs in the balance.
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"RICK'S SPEECH"
After a year of pushing himself half way across the world, Rick, Amanda, Don and Lee find themselves at the centre of million Chinese who have embraced their dream. It's both a moment of triumph and reflection as Rick remembers how long the journey has been from obscurity for everyone who knows disability.
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"IT'S A CHAIN REACTION"
Steeper, hotter and rougher than expected, Rick's ascent up the Great Wall is measured in how much longer his body can sustain its core temperate rising. Don presses Amanda for a solution that will allow the climb go continue.
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"HOW MUCH MORE PREPARED CAN WE BE?"
With an upper body overdeveloped from pushing his wheelchair chair half way around the world, Rick's muscles produce heat that must be controlled during his climb up the Great Wall. Recurring infection and fever make the effort to control his temperature more difficult as he struggles with the increasing grade and the sun that quickly warms the mountain air....
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"HEADING TO THE GREAT WALL"
Chinese legend has it, the Great Wall was built over the centuries on the blood of those who died and were buried beneath it. In recent times, Chairman Mao told his people that to be a hero, one must reach the Great Wall. For Rick Hansen, Don Alder, Amanda and Mike Reid, Lee Gibson and others, climbing the Wall would prove to a skeptical world that their dreams...