![]() ![]() I almost got to the point where it wouldn’t matter if I was in a wheelchair permanently. But most of the learning happened those first two weeks. The 30-year-old suggests: “I’ve learned more about myself in the last two years than ever before. Even being able to walk down stairs feels amazing.” I’m just happy now – even though I’m limping around – and the fact I can stand on top of a mountain is ridiculous. “Or they tell me to stop being so annoyingly positive. “My friends ask me: ‘How can you always be so positive?’” Jackson says as a bulldog called Barry snores at his feet. Remarkable courage and hope define the former No 8, who played for Bath, Doncaster, London Welsh, Wasps and the Dragons. ![]() But it is impossible not to be moved by the sobering magnitude of everything he overcame. Sitting in Jackson’s garden, on a gorgeous day near Bath, it’s easy to share his good humour. He is now preparing for two imposing climbs which, in November, culminates in him scaling the 6,500m Mera Peak in the Himalayas as he strives to raise enough money to build a spinal injury unit in Nepal. ![]()
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