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Matt Nyman
Iraq 2005
I dream of climbing Denali.  My whole life was the outdoors before my injury.  My goal was to climb Mt. Rainier and this happened before I could do it.  I wanted to follow it with Denali.  When I trained for selection for Special Operations Command, I would run up to base camp at around 10K.  It started at 7K and I would do it with 30 to 60lbs depending.  My whole life I've hiked, camped, skied, and just about everything else you can do.   In 2005, I was on a little bird helicopter in Iraq when we crashed.  I was tossed into the rotor.  It cut off my right leg below the knee, cut and crushed my left foot, compound femur fracture, and collapsed lungs. All I have done is dreamed about climbing a big mountain and since I got hurt, it just made me want to do it even more to prove to myself I can overcome anything.  I will do whatever it takes to do this expedition.





 
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