Travis Metzger Climbing Accident

This is a video of the search and rescue for me after falling off a cliff and in to the waterfall below leaving me paralyzed from the waist down.

This a fundraiser my best friend set up for me: http://ny-for-life.livejournal.com/63743.html?#cutid1

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• Fall
• Accident
• Paraplegic
• Paralyze
• Paralyzed
• Fundraiser

[SASQUATCHisAlive]

Glad your alive, so obviously this type of rock crawling is of the question, would it be possible to outfit a Jeep to hold your wheelchair and allow you to rock-crawl in a Jeep? I imagine setting up a vehicle for a wheelchair is expensve but hey at least you could get back on the mountains. Wish you the best!

[Oblivion718]

You don't need to customize a Jeep more than putting in hand controls for the gas and brake.

[edenprairiecheer]

are you from MN?

[Oblivion718]

I'm not from Minnesota. I'm from Utah.

[seizetheweakened]

props to SAR!

[Oblivion718]

Definitely! I don't know where I would be now with out them. I had also been lucky because SAR was up there for some boy scouts that were up there.

[wakko380]

@Oblivion718 man, gas and brake with hand controls.. like driving a boat :D, happy your alive bro.. Keep the happiness up.. and keep fighting bro...

[Skateoftheunion]

This story is way too eerily similar to what happened to me this summer, except I wasn't hiking with my wallet on me at the time, lest I be ID'd by story hungry journalists and plastered all over the news.

[bernhardfranz]

51515 views

[rozination]

Glad you are ok! I had to wonder, though- am I the only one that noticed the misspelling at 0:23 on the newscast? I believe it's spelled, "vertical", not "verticle"! Haha!!! That editor should reconsider their job choice! Amazing story, however... again, glad you are safe.

[otowise]

poisonfume@ i see what you mean your mother and father new the risks but they went ahead anyway and 9 months later you came along they brought it on them selves!!

[daneshit]

I guess your just another one of those losers here on youtube.. Oh well

[itchyundies]

hope ya make it ok mate shit it must of hurt

[pedrovay2003]

It was never implied that what happened wasn't a mistake, as we've all acknowledged that many times. But you had no right to say the things you did. You obviously weren't involved in any way, and don't know the extent of everything that happened. So why come in here and pretend you have a clue, when you've made it quite clear that you don't? Also, comparing this to that beer can thing isn't even close.

Oh, learn to spell. It might make these riveting conversations of ours easier to read.