At Saint Bernard on Sunday, Scottish Rite patient Cody McCasland, left, chats with Dr. Tony Herring. (Photo by Jeanne Prejean) Inside the Saint Bernard ski, snowboard, and apparel store in Dallas’ ...

DFW AIRPORT (CBSDFW.COM) - Fourteen teenage amputees gathered at DFW Airport early Monday morning for an exciting send-off. The teens, their parents and medical staffers were getting ready to head out ...

Back in 1998, 23-year-old Brian Bartlett was like a lot of other 20-something ski bums, a sponsored athlete with visions of starring in adventure documentaries. Bartlett’s life changed in an instant ...

Seventeen-year-old Candace Darden and William Skeeter Phillips, 16, are two of 14 teenage amputee patients who have been chosen to participate in the 30th Annual Amputee Ski Trip in Winter Park, ...

If it weren’t for adaptive skiing and other empowering outdoor activities like it, Vijay Viswanathan isn’t sure life would be worth living.Viswanathan, a 20-year-old from Boulder, has been confined to ...

George Kellogg had a choice. He could easily have let his injury get the best of him, part of a string of unlucky and self-inflicted issues he was dealing with. Instead, he decided to climb that ...

When local filmmaker Spencer Miller first met Tony Drees, he knew he had a story on his hands. Drees is a United States Army Purple Heart amputee. The veteran survived a scud-missile attack on his ...

Southington >> Whizzing down snowy slopes can teach lifelong lessons, especially when the challenge once seemed impossible. For one young amputee, skiing was transformative.

Perhaps it was because Vasu Sojitra nearly died when he was a child that he has chosen to pursue life with such raw gusto, even though the youthful illness cost him his right leg.