Ascent - The Story of Hugh Herr

Produced by Brian Knappenberger and Jonathan Grupper
Featured on the National Geographic Channel's 'True Original' series.

"Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr," is a documentary that follows the story of rock climber turned MIT prostheticist, Hugh Herr. The documentary joins Hugh on a very personal quest, as he is himself a double amputee. At age 17 while fast becoming a
world-class rock climber, Hugh was caught in a terrible blizzard on Mount Washington. He barely survived, only to lose his legs and, worse, to suffer the loss of one of his rescuers' lives. Undaunted, Hugh took to creating artificial limbs that would enable him not only to continue climbing, but to climb at a more advanced level than he could with biological legs. This instinct for innovation soon became an adult passion for helping others through high tech prosthetics.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Hugh
• Herr
• cyborg
• robot
• prosthetic
• technology
• rock
• climbing
• Knappenberger

[zhaofei22030]

Doctor Hugh Herr is a legend. He showed up in my company's quarterly meeting, which suppose to show us how great the company was doing financially. Dr Herr was a guest speaker. He told us his story in a funny, calm way, but inspired everyone. Compared to him, what I have been doing is just nothing. There was a long stand up applauding after his speak.

He is smart, confident, funny, strong, charismatic... I am thinking to quit my job and become his graduate student.

[EltBerserker]

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[dvfortune007]

i am really inspired by Herr... i believe, there are lots of people started to live the way they were after you've shown them..