A Vernon skier carved his way onto the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday.
In early February, Josh Dueck, 31, who trains at Silver Star, defied gravity and completed a back flip in a sit ski while at Whistler.
Video of the amazing fear went viral, which is how Dueck found himself chatting with Ellen.
In 2004, Dueck, who was working as a ski coach, was going too fast while demonstrating a jump and fell more than 30 metres onto his back.
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Dueck broke his neck and severed his spinal cord. In that moment, he became permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
Dueck finished first in the sit-skier category at the IPC World Championships in 2009 and won silver at the 2010 Paralympics Games in Vancouver.
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