Drone footage shows paraplegic climber attempting to scale Hong Kong skyscraper

Source:-Newzee

As the sun set behind the towering 300 metre tall skyscraper in Hong Kong, Lai Chi-wai, strapped into his wheelchair, with his blistered hands pulled himself up past the 250 metre mark, becoming the first man in Hong Kong history to scale a building in a wheelchair.
After more than 10 hours of climbing up Nina Towers using a pulley system, the 37-year-old climber, realised he didn't have enough strength left to climb to the top as planned and stopped.
In an interview before his attempt to climb the skyscraper Lai said that buildings posed a different challenge compared to mountains.
"Climbing up a mountain, I can hold onto rocks or little holes, but with glass, all I can really rely on is the rope that I'm hanging off of," he said.
Nonetheless, the event raised HK$5.2 million (671,00 USD) for spinal cord patients and marks the 10 year anniversary of Lai's road accident that left him paralysed from the waist down.
Before his accident, Lai was one of the world's top climbers. He is a four-time winner of the Asia Rock Climbing Championships and at one point ranked eighth in the world.
It took years for Lai to adjust to life in a wheelchair and eventually resumed his job as a climbing instructor but he says he felt aimless. He then started climbing by attaching his wheelchair to a pulley system and challenged himself to climb Lion Rock mountain, which is a local symbol of Hong Kong's strength and grit.
" Apart from just living, I wondered what drives me? So I began to chase that, knowing that there was a possibility I could climb mountains, even in a wheelchair, that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life knowing that I could do what I wanted in life," Lai said. "In a way, I forgot that I was a disabled person, I could still dream and I could still do what I liked doing even as a disabled person."
His successful climb five years ago sparked his ambition and he set his sights on the 300-metre skyscraper.
"Some people don't understand the difficulties of disabled people, some people think that we are always weak, we need help, we need assistance, we need people's pity,. But, I want to tell everyone, it doesn't have to be like that. If a disabled person can shine, they can at the same time bring about opportunity, hope, bring about light, they don't have to be viewed as 'weak,' " said Lai.