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Hugh Herr, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Hugh Herr lost both his legs at the age of 17. His work has allowed hundreds of people sentenced to the cane or wheelchair to run and dance. He keeps climbing mountains
Hugh Herr is a climber, engineer, and professor of biophysics. During a climb he lost both his legs due to frostbite after getting lost climbing Mount Washington, in New Hampshire, in 1982. He was 17 years old and since then he has not stopped working on the…
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