Trio complete an incredible journey

Ben Jaycock talks to Ed Jackson, the former Wasps forward who took up mountaineering after hurting his back.

Having been forced into retirement from rugby at just 28 due to a swimming pool accident, Ed Jackson has since turned his attention to mountaineering and was recently part of the first ever all-disabled team to cross Western Europe’s largest ice cap.
Jackson, 34, was left with a weakness/paralysis down one side of his body after dislocating his C6/C7 vertebrae due to jumping in the shallow end of a swimming pool in 2017 and is now a keynote speaker and broadcaster alongside his char...

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