how do you feel? 0h, great! were you scared? no. you re amazing. right, you re definitely going to be the best at this, alex. because you have seen it like five times now. am i? well, i m glad you have confidence. ifeel like i am dancing here. he s not dancing back, i don t think he s interested. i m excited now, i want to get it done. i say that now, though. i mean, once i m halfway up, i might change my mind. this is a handle. you re going to have to grip towards you, 0k? and basically, it slides up the rope but when you pull down, it grips and it will pull. grip! heave!
i m stuck! 0h, here we go. cheering and applause. i can t really explain it. it s hard to get up there but once you re up there, my god, it s amazing, it s like you re a bird. you can see everything. it s weightlessness, as well, so you re just free, and i ve never had that, ever. and it s really, really high just to make that point clear. it s very high. but it s very nice. i didn t want to come down, but it was beautiful. you want to do it again? i ll go again now, you guys? yeah, is that all right, yeah?
after almost a week at sea, finally land is in sight. 0ur destination, poole harbour. we can see land. i miss land quite a bit. overall, though, it s been. actually been amazing. it s been hard, as i keep saying, but it s been worth it. as a person who s in a chair, especially in my case, it s often quite hard to explore. as a kid, i kind of had to ask other people for that help and you kind of have to imagine things and that s why i would write books and things, or read books and have ideas. i couldn t really do it, so i had to write it. but in here, it s quite nice because you actually go on board and you get to do that stuff and go on the seas which is lovely. i ve been up a mast which i don t do every day so that was actually amazing, really. i ve never, ever thought i could do that.
a massive loss. it s only when you see a lion feeding that you get an idea or you start understand just how powerful they are. i mean, it s so impressive. and that lion is only three years old! those are memories of ade s trip to southern africa back in 2015. now for something completely different the busy english channel. the tenacious is the first tall ship in the world to be fully adapted for a disabled crew. it s run by thejubilee sailing trust, which claims that its adventures can provide life changing experiences for people with all different kinds of abilities. we sent alex taylor to check it out and we catch up with him early in the morning after his first bumpy night at sea. hello. how are you feeling? good, thank you. i m going back to bed now.
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