Ben Jaycock talks to Ed Jackson, the former Wasps forward who took up mountaineering after hurting his back.
Having been forced into retirement from rugby at just 28 due to a swimming pool accident, Ed Jackson has since turned his attention to mountaineering and was recently part of the first ever all-disabled team to cross Western Europe’s largest ice cap.
Jackson, 34, was left with a weakness/paralysis down one side of his body after dislocating his C6/C7 vertebrae due to jumping in the shallow end of a swimming pool in 2017 and is now a keynote speaker and broadcaster alongside his chari...
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