OUR FAVOURITE M2M ARTICLES
21 August 2024
Ed Jackson was a professional rugby star in the peak of his powers when he suffered a horror injury that would change his life forever. The Newport Gwent Dragons player had just signed a two-year contract with his team in 2017 and his career was seemingly on the up. Recovering from his shoulder injury at…
Read more20 August 2024
A former rugby player who suffered a life-changing injury has taken part in a documentary film following his road to recovery. Ed Jackson, who played for several clubs including Bath, broke his neck in an accident in 2017. Doctors warned him he would never walk again, but Mr Jackson defied the odds and even began…
Read more19 August 2024
New documentary The Mountain Within Me tells the story of professional rugby player Ed Jackson. In 2017 professional rugby player Ed Jackson broke his neck in a swimming accident, and was told he might not walk or stand again. Less than a year after breaking his neck he defied all the odds to climb Snowden.…
Read more17 August 2024
Rugby player Ed Jackson was in peak physical condition when he broke his spine in an accident. Seven years on, he helps other men deal with the fallout from life-changing injuries — including how to have sex again and never give up hope.
Read more9 July 2024
Why is walking spiritual? Giles Fraser asks if the power of pilgrimage in it’s destination, or along the pathway. Alice Sainsbury was recovering from a serious neurological illness when she slowly started to walk again. Step by step she found herself again through walking, and small pilgrimages near her home in Cornwall. It wasn’t just…
Read more16 May 2024
When rugby player Ed Jackson suffered a catastrophic – and almost fatal – injury following a diving accident in 2017, he was told by doctors he would never walk again. But just a few years later, he set off to climb both the Himlung Himal in Nepal and The Aiguille Dibona in the French Alps…
Read more21 January 2024
It’s not often you meet someone who gets a round of applause for farting on stage. “I was giving a talk in London and I had mentioned earlier about my flatulence,” Niall McCann says. He’d explained to the audience that a speed flying accident in 2016 – in which he smashed into the Bannau Brycheiniog…
Read more21 October 2023
In the spring of 2021, Charlotte Florence was on a break from her office job in London, surfing in Costa Rica for several months, when she had an accident which left doctors in doubt about whether she would ever be able to walk again. Here, she explains her journey to recovery, against all odds…
Read more4 April 2023
The quadriplegic mountaineer marked five years since his against-all-odds Yr Wyddfa summit, paving the way for beneficiaries of charity Millimetres 2 Mountains. Former professional rugby player turned adaptive adventurer Ed Jackson summited Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) on Sunday, marking the five-year anniversary since he first took on the challenge in 2018 – just 12 months after…
Read more26 March 2023
A former rugby player who suffered severe spinal injuries is to cross the largest ice cap in western Europe. Ed Jackson, who was BBC’s West’s Unsung Hero in 2021, will join two others to become the first fully disabled team to traverse Iceland’s Vatnajokull Glacier. They hope to raise £155,000 – £1,000 for every kilometre…
Read more8 January 2023
“Millimetres 2 Mountains creates positive change for people who are facing mental health challenges as a result of encountering adversity in their lives. Through exploration, adventure and the great outdoors we inspire and support individuals to redefine their own limitations and take steps towards a brighter future.”…
Read more24 May 2022
Stranded overnight on a Himalayan mountain without water, food or tents in temperatures that plummeted to -30 degrees Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit), Ed Jackson and his team took it in turns to keep each another awake in case they fell asleep and did not wake up again. Jackson was attempting to scale Himlung Himal, a…
Read more24 December 2021
A paralysed ex-rugby player has completed a challenge of climbing 12 of the UK’s highest peaks in six days. Ed Jackson, from Bath, and climber Ross Stirling completed the ’12 peaks of Christmas’ challenge on Christmas Eve. After an accident in 2017, Mr Jackson was told by doctors he might never walk again. The pair…
Read more21 April 2021
Former professional rugby player Ed Jackson’s life changed forever when he dived into the shallow end of a swimming pool and suffered severe spinal cord damage one fateful day in April 2017. Jackson’s accident left him with only very limited movement in his right arm and the scale of the challenge in front of him…
Read more18 January 2021
Alex Boyd-Williams in conversation with Ed and Lois Jackson. Ed Jackson was destined for a hugely successful career in sport until he dived head-first into a shallow swimming pool. After several operations, he found himself in ICU only able to move his right hand. Ed and Lois tell us what it took to go from…
Read more23 May 2020
Ed Jackson sits down with the RPA to talk us through his latest challenge. The former Dragons, Wasps, London Welsh and Bath forward has launched the M2M Group in an effort to raise £250,000 to build a spinal unit in Nepal. Where did the idea come from to launch the M2M Group? I was trying…
Read more24 April 2020
Quadriplegic former professional rugby player Ed Jackson has scaled the height of Mount Everest by hauling himself up and down the stairs of his parents’ house and raised more than 41,000 pounds ($US50,647.30) for charity.
Read more24 April 2020
A paralysed ex-rugby player has climbed the equivalent height of Mount Everest on his parents’ staircase. Ed Jackson, from Bath, broke his neck after diving into the shallow end of a swimming pool in 2017, leaving him with no or partial use of all four limbs.
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