I'd love to see a "walking" type chair based on one of those guys... As an adaptive rock climber, I love being able to climb outside on real rocks instead of the fake rocks in the gym... However the biggest challenge in trying to do climbing outside is not the climb, but GETTING TO the climb - mother nature is not ADA compliant....
A 'chair' that could clamber over rough ground and 'boulder scramble' would make it a whole lot easier to get to climbs instead of needing the small army of gorillas it takes to carry me in my manual chair...
BTW, a big brag - I went on a trip a few weeks ago and was able to get my first OUTSIDE lead climb - I've been leading in the gym for over a year, but getting a guide to let me lead outside was a major challenge...
- Getting started...
- Partway up...
- It's lots of fun to get high....
Note the lack of a top rope....
I wasn't able to top out and finish the climb, as I have some harness problems that make my legs go to sleep after a while - but the rest of it wasn't that bad looking, and I hope to solve the harness problem and finish the route at some point in the future...
As far as I know, this makes me just the second paraplegic in the world to lead climb, and the first to do so both outside and in the gym...
ex-Gooserider