For me, to be able to see these massive mountains, seeing these cascading waterfalls and alpine

lakes and skiing all these epic lines in these very remote places, at the end of the

day, for me being in those natural spaces is really what makes me human and I think that

is a massive human right.

Vosu Sojitra, his ski down some of the most impressive lines in the US and Canada.

In 2021, he became one of the first adaptive athletes to ski down Denali and he's made

groundbreaking descents in the Grand T-tons and the Bear Tooth Mountain range.

Vosu only has one leg, so when he's in the mountains, he wears one ski and uses a special

set of poles called Outriggers.

As the first adaptive athlete to be represented by the North Face, Vosu has used his platform

to speak out about representation and intersectionality in the outdoors.

I'm Shelby Stanger and this is Wild Ideas' Worth Living, an R.I. co-op studios production.

Vosu is best known for skiing but he actually does a ton of different sports.

I'm skateboarding to mountaineering to soccer.

As a natural athlete, Vosu can't keep himself away from trying new things.

When Vosu was nine months old, he was diagnosed with a blood infection called septicemia and

his right leg was amputated during treatment.

Vosu was just a baby and learning to walk with the prosthetic was really challenging.

I was very active and I would break my prosthetic, I would grow out of it, it would become

uncomfortable, all that kind of stuff, so we'd have to keep taking it back to our prosthetists

and then I was using a prosthetic from around seven to around nine, so only a couple years.

I was mobile but I was kind of on the tail end of my friends and so I was kind of just

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