Craig DeMartino Climbs 5.12+. He climbed The Nose in a day. And he’s missing part of his right leg. In 2002 he took a 100-foot ground fall that should’ve killed him — it nearly did. It shattered part of his lower spine, broke his neck, punctured his lung…and he didn’t die. But this plunge upended his life in ways he never could’ve imagined. In one of the best profiles we’ve read in a heck of a long time, Fitz Cahall chronicles DeMartino’s decade-long fight back from being wheelchair-bound, having to choose to have part of his leg amputated, and the evolution to the forever changed father, husband, and climber he’s become.

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