Tag: Adventure

  • Wheelchair-Accessible Hot Air Ballooning: A Practical Guide

    Wheelchair-Accessible Hot Air Ballooning: A Practical Guide

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    Four balloon operators with adapted provision, plus the questions that matter about wheelchairs, transfers, landing and the journey back.

  • Adaptive Skiing as a Wheelchair User | Luxury Ski Resorts That Get It Right

    Adaptive Skiing as a Wheelchair User | Luxury Ski Resorts That Get It Right

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    The mountain does not care that you are in a wheelchair. The snow is the snow. The slope is the slope. The feeling of moving down a mountain at speed, the cold air and the light and the particular silence of a ski run in the early morning before the…

  • Wheelchair Accessible Safari | Luxury Safari as a Wheelchair User

    Wheelchair Accessible Safari | Luxury Safari as a Wheelchair User

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    The Serengeti does not know you are in a wheelchair. The lion sitting forty metres from the Land Cruiser does not care. The elephant herd crossing the track ahead, the dust rising around their feet, the sound of their movement through the dry grass. None of it adjusts for you…

  • Nothing Is Off Limits | Extraordinary Experiences for Wheelchair Users

    Nothing Is Off Limits | Extraordinary Experiences for Wheelchair Users

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    The list of things wheelchair users are supposed to accept as beyond reach is long. Safari. Hot air ballooning. Skiing. Diving. Horseback riding. Paragliding. Cooking classes in a Tuscan farmhouse. Kayaking in the Norwegian fjords. Watching the sunrise from a balloon basket above the Serengeti. The list is wrong. Not…