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Hi guys my name is Harry, I am a student at Biomedical Engineering student atat Newcastle University. I started boldering a in mid October.

I was given a dissertation title to design a artificial limb four a sporting activity, I of course pick climbing. The issue is I am not entirely sure ware to start. I was hoping some of you knew or have heard of some climber with lower limb loss (missing one or both legs below the knee). If you could put me in contact with them or even better if they were willing to go climbing or interview them. 

If not any help would be invaluable, if that links to websites or news articles, even Facebook group or other blogs would be great.

Thanks,

Harry C

Email: [email protected]

Phone number: 07977618495

With this?

youtube.com/watch?v=YGV2ADbKpcQ&

Thanks man that greatl! Let me know if you know of any other good vids.

You could try contacting the GB Paraclimbing team.

https://www.facebook.com/GBParaclimbingTeam/

Have a look at Hugh Herr's Ted talk if you've not already seen it.

I saw this the other day  youtube.com/watch?v=jjqf6m0HqkU&

I know you're asking about artificial limbs but there are a couple of people properly nailing it without. This guy works at my wall and comfortably outboulders most people there with the full complement... https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/phil_mitchell_-_gb_paraclimber...

There's a couple of one legged climbers regularly at the Valley/Church, you could pop up a poster with your contact details on and see if they get in touch

Adaptive Climbing USA are the place to go.

Do u have a link or contact for them mate !

Thanks man I ask about sticking a poster up  

https://www.epictv.com/article/climbing/keith-lynch-gb-paraclimber

A guy with one leg absolutely schooled me in a comp at weekend - Martin Heald i think his name was, bloody amazing.

Norman Croucher. Double leg amputee. Amazing mountaineering career.

I'm sure Jamie Andrew has been mentioned, but if not, look him up.

There's Paradox Sports in the US, who have a manual on adaptive climbing which might be useful:

https://www.paradoxsports.org/

But Hugh Herr would be the person to check out first of all, since he's a lower-limb amputee climber who started by designing his own prosthetic legs specifically for climbing and is now one of the world's greatest in the prosthetics field (running a lab at MIT).

He did some of his hardest routes after losing his legs, and says he knew he was back in the game when his fellow climbers starting accusing him of getting an unfair advantage from being able to modify his climbing legs as needed.

As well as his TED talk, there's this piece with footage of him climbing and of his lab:

youtube.com/watch?v=z6_0nI5U-Qg&

youtube.com/watch?v=6X0SwJkvOSE&

Ronnie Dickson is an uber-strong climber with one prosthetic leg who Google tells me has also become a prosthetist: https://poacfl.com/tag/ronnie-dickson/

Internationally, "male lower limb amputee" is one of the toughest categories in comp paraclimbing because there's such a depth of field, with brutally strong people like Dickson and Urko Carmona in it -- I got to watch those two battling it out in a comp and it was spectacular.

Also if you want to throw in a dash of history, Geoffrey Winthrop Young continued climbing with a prosthetic leg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Winthrop_Young