It has been a year since I felt joy': Paul Sagar on coming to terms with the climbing accident that paralysed him

"On 5 June, I was climbing in Glencoe with a friend... a route we had thought to be in unusually safe condition turned out to be almost lethal."

"I fell about 20 metres. My left arm was shattered severely, and my right arm was also broken... Worst of all I fractured two vertebrae in my neck."

"I was airlifted to Glasgow hospital where I had several operations and awoke four weeks later... I have been transferred to the Royal London hospital, where I am undergoing the start of a very long physio journey."

"At present, I have limited use of my hands and no control of my body below my abdominal muscles. This is not exactly how I planned to spend my summer, to say the least."

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