33-year-old Lai Chi-wai is a four- time winner of the Asian Rock Climbing Championships. But five years ago, his promising athletic career seemed to be1 ， following a terrible motorcycle accident that 2 him paralyzed(瘫痪) from the waist down.
For his family and friends, that3 he could no longer do the one thing that4 gave him a feeling of achievement—climbing heights. 5 he lost the use of his legs, Chi-wai wasn't ready to give up on his passion. After recovery, he6 wheelchair boxing, but he also continued to7 with his old mountain climber friends.
His son's birth8 Chi-wai to follow his passion even more. In 2014, he said he was to climb Lion Rock once again, this time in a wheelchair. The announcement caused9 among his friends, 10 something like that had never been done before. But they all11 that if someone could climb to the top of the 495-meter-high mountain in wheelchair, it would12 be him.
On December 9th, 2016, Lai Chi-wai performed his word, becoming the first paraplegic to climb all the way the top of Lion Rock.
People 13 their admiration for Chi-wai's achievement, many saying that he symbolized Hong Kong's can-do14 in the face of setbacks. He also earned the15 of rock climbing experts, one of whom told Sky Post he never imagined someone in a wheelchair could ever make it to the top of Lion Rock, 16 its high degree of difficulty.
His primary teacher once said: "My17 of Chi-wai is that he has firm determination. Once he's set a goal, nothing can stop him keeping trying18 he succeeds. However19 the challenge is, he doesn't give up." How20 the teacher was!
