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Joe Stone's Road Back to Skydiving After the Crash That Paralyzed Him

Name: Joe Stone's Road Back to Skydiving After the Crash That Paralyzed Him
Uploaded: 2026-09-01
Duration: 6 min 20 s
Description: In August 2010 a speed flying crash on Mount Jumbo in Missoula, Montana left Joe Stone an incomplete C7 quadriplegic. This is his road back to skydiving,

A speed flying crash left Joe Stone paralyzed from the chest down. This is how he got back into the sky.

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In August 2010 a speed flying crash on Mount Jumbo in Missoula, Montana left Joe Stone an incomplete C7 quadriplegic. This is his road back to skydiving, and on to biking Glacier's Going-to-the-Sun Road, returning to BASE jumping in 2016, and leading mission work at Teton Adaptive.

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