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Because I can.” That’s why Evan Strong, a Maui kid with one and a half legs, wanted to learn to snowboard just more than four years ago.

The statement rings of George Mallory, the British climber who, more than 90 years ago, told a New York Times reporter he wanted to climb Mt. Everest “because it’s there.”

But Strong utters the phrase with a sense of wonder, rather than of defiance.

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