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‘Lucky’ Ed Jackson motivated by a desire to inspire

The ex-Wasps and Dragons No.8 is back on his endurance trail with a bid to climb Mont Blanc four years on from breaking his neck in a diving accident
Ed Jackson

LUCKY is not the word you would expect a player, who at the prime of his career broke his neck after diving into a swimming pool and became a quadriplegic, to call his autobiography.

But Ed Jackson, the former Dragons No.8 who numbers the England and Lions centre Elliot Daly among his close rugby friends, has since that day at a friend’s house when he was told he would never walk again, looked forward, not back.
He has climbed mountains, literally and figuratively, and has used his experience to help others whose lives took an unexpected turn. He has set up a charity and led a trip to Icela...

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