A retired rugby star turned quadriplegic has made an unbelievable recovery from a broken neck to reach the peak of a previously unclimbed mountain in Asia.

Ed Jackson became the first person to successfully ascend the unnamed, 15,485-foot-high peak in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan on August 23rd.

The former professional rugby player for English teams Bath and Wasps was warned he may never walk again after diving into a shallow pool eight years ago and suffering a spinal cord injury.

But after years of rehab from a team of experts, his sights were set higher than a return to the rugby pitch—nothing less than a never-before-climbed peak amid the famous Central Asian range.

After arriving at the foot of the mountain, Ed and his team establish a remote base camp with the support of

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