he won gold at the rio olympics, and now steve and his co pilot, adam, are hoping to repeat their success injapan. claire press reports. if you want to be the best in the world, you ve got to work harder than everyone else. paralympic champion steve bate is chasing after one thing gold in tokyo. ten years ago, steve was diagnosed with a rare eye disorder. my eyesight is getting narrower and narrower, my field of vision is getting smaller and smaller. if i hold my hands there, i can t see them, you know, which is really bizarre. before his diagnosis, steve had spent his life in the mountains. at that time in my life, that was everything to me. all of a sudden, that wasjust like gone. within a few sentences of getting an eye check, like, you can t drive, i don t think you should
my field of vision is getting , smaller and smaller. if i hold my hands there, i can t see them, you know, which is really bizarre. before his diagnosis, steve had spent his life in the mountains. at that time in my life, that was everything to me. all of a sudden, that wasjust like gone. within a few sentences of getting an eye check, like, you can t drive, i don t think you should climb any more. living the dream up here. check out that view. but instead of giving up, steve took on the climb of his life, ascending over 900 metres. this is the really scary bit. in 2013, steve became the first visually impaired person to solo climb el capitan, one of the hardest ascents in the world. i always said that was the missing