The Return · 6 min · Battling Monsters

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

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

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What happened

In August 2010, a speed flying accident on Mount Jumbo in Missoula, Montana left Joe Stone an incomplete C7 quadriplegic.

What he did next

He went back to skydiving. He biked Glacier's Going-to-the-Sun Road. He returned to BASE jumping in 2016, and he leads mission work at Teton Adaptive.

This is Joe's story, and he tells it better than anyone could tell it for him.

Why we make these films

Battling Monsters is the mental health movement Jamie Leibert founded. PTSD is the monster. A wingsuit is how he manages it. Not a recovery story. A daily fight, filmed. Every film on this site is free because the people who need it most are the ones who cannot pay for it.

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