Jaco van Gass, a British soldier from South Africa, lost an arm in Afghanistan. That’s not slowing him down a bit. He plans to climb Mount Everest, making use of a prosthetic arm that he helped design himself:
He said: “I came up with the idea to attach an ice axe to one of my prosthetics, so I kind of challenged the guys at Headley Court to see how we could get this done.”
Van Gass bought a regular ice axe and staff at the centre sawed off the double-sided head, then welded and bolted it to a specially adapted prosthetic made of carbon fibre and plastic.
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5 comments:
Now we know what we would have been in for if there had been a fourth Evil Dead movie.
A lot of orange safety clothing.
I always wanted a hook for a hand when I was a kid. Glad I didn't get that wish granted.
When we were kids there was a wanted poster up for a killer who had a hooks for hands and it scared the hell out of us. I remember a German show that profiled the guy who lost his hands while escaping from a train in handcuffs.
John Waters has mentioned that he used to want a hook for a hand.
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