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Climber scales 200ft cliff despite having no legs (one of his false limbs falls off halfway up)

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Heroic Hugh Herr enjoys nothing more than scaling a cliff – even though both his legs were amputated after a disastrous climbing expedition when he was a teenager.

As if conquering a 200ft rock face wasn’t hard enough, one of his prosthetic legs fell off during his latest climb – but he calmly waited for it to be roped back up to him before making it to the top.

Mr Herr runs a lab making bionic legs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and insists artificial limbs are an advantage   …  Pictures and more

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