The moment of truth is almost at hand for a man who is no stranger to the toughest of challenges. In just a few days he’ll be climbing Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro as no one has ever climbed it before, as CBS News correspondent Karen Brown reports.
Don’t tell Chris Waddell he can’t climb a mountain. This week Waddell will try to become the first paraplegic, on his own power, to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro.
“I want them to go, ‘Wow, I never thought that was possible,'” Waddell said.
Paralyzed at 20 in a freak ski accident, Waddell went on to become the most decorated Paralympic skier ever. But still, he’s tired of just being “a guy in a wheel chair.”  … Details