{"id":1708,"date":"2022-03-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werocksport.com\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2022-03-02T07:06:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T06:06:34","slug":"ces-riders-handisport-qui-repoussent-leurs-limites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/werocksport.com\/en\/ces-riders-handisport-qui-repoussent-leurs-limites\/","title":{"rendered":"These handisport riders who push their limits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether they are surfers, climbers, adventurers or mountain bikers, these riders have never given up their passion despite their disability.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alban Tessier \/ Adventurer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To cross the Salar de Uyuni with all your physical means is already a feat. To do it with a progressive disease of the vision is even greater. It is what succeeded Alban Tessier<\/a> in July 2018 when he set foot on the Salar d'Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat. Despite his very reduced field of vision, less than 5 degrees of central vision, this 42-year-old from Nantes (a teacher at Institut Les Hauts-Th\u00e9baudi\u00e8res) walked 140 km across this desert landscape at an altitude of 3,658 m. A real feat for the man who is photophobic (intolerant of light). \"I'd get up around 6am for an 8am start, just long enough to eat and set up my bivouac,\" he explains. \"I'd walk until around 4pm, with one or two 30-minute breaks during the day. And I avoided walking at night to limit certain dangers.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Philippe Ribi\u00e8re \/ Climbing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This Frenchman is one of the few professional handisport climbers in the world. Born with a congenital malformation and abandoned by his parents at birth, he discovered climbing at the age of 17 and has persevered in this discipline to the point of making a living from it today through sponsorship, the conferences he gives and the book \"Faire bloc\" (published by Arthaud) which he published two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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