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After Warren Macdonald lost both legs in a hiking accident, you would think he'd never want to see the bush again. But less than two years later he is the first above-knee amputee to scale Tasmania's treacherous Federation Peak. His harrowing four-week trek - through plains of waist-deep mud, flooded rivers and storms of hail - was captured in the documentary The Second Step. The 30-minute film, by director and cinematographer Gary Caganoff, provides a unique insight into the unshakeable determination that drove Macdonald. He recalls how he lost his legs after an accident on Mount Bowen, on Hinchinbrook Island off the North Queensland coast, in April, 1997. 'After setting up camp for the night I went to take a leak. I started climbing a steep wall to move away from the creek. The next thing I know I am flat on my back with this incredible weight grinding down into my legs,' he says. A section of rock had broken free, sending him crashing down into the creek bed. A one-tonne boulder crushed his legs and pelvis. He was pinned there for two days - and came close to drowning as the water level in the creek rose - while his companion hiked out for help. When help finally arrived, the rescue crew took two-and-a-half hours to free him. Incredibly, Macdonald survived. His legs didn't. They were amputated at the mid-thigh. 'I had 13 operations in 18 days. For the first two weeks, I was sure I was going to die,'' he says.``Taking control of what was left of my life was largely a case of overcoming each small obstacle as it arose.' Macdonald was told he'd never walk again. Ten months later he dragged his butt up Cradle Mountain. 'Over three gruelling days I dragged myself up Cradle Mountain. This gave me a taste of what I thought I lost and I wanted more.' More was Federation Peak, an infamously difficult climb across jagged ranges buffeted by icy Antarctic winds. 'When I climbed Cradle Mountain I knew what I was getting into, so it was almost like reclaiming somet --The Age www.theage.com.au
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THE SECOND STEP- WARREN MACDONALD S EPIC JOURNEY TO FEDERATION PEAK Award winning (8 international awards) inspirational documentary film on double leg amputee Warren Macdonald s epic 28-day journey to Federation Peak, Australia s most challenging mountain. DVD includes Will Gadd's film "Part Animal, Part Machine" which captures Warren's ascent of the 600ft frozen waterfall, Weeping Wall; PLUS Timmy O'Neill's Kroykees! featuring Warren s 3 day climb of Yosemite's 2,800ft big wall, El Capitan. Winner of 8 International Awards: Banff Mountain Film Festival- Grand Prize (2002) Kendal Mountain Film Festival- Best Mountaineering Film (2002) Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival- Jury Award (2003) Telluride Mountainfilm- Human Spirit awards (2002) Moscow International Festival of Mountaineering and Adventure Films- Special Prize (2003) Spanish Sports Film Fest- Sports Award, Santendar (2003) Woodford Folk Festival Film Fest- Woodford Rocket (2003) Special Jury Award, Explorers Club Documentary Film Festival (2006) All of have the ability to pull off some pretty incredible things, the difference is, some people are afraid of taking that first step. In the heart of South West Tasmania's magnificent World Heritage wilderness stands Federation Peak, one of Australia's most challenging mountains. Against all the odds, Warren Macdonald spends 28 days hiking to and climbing the peak, becoming the first double above-knee amputee ever to do so. Walking away from the social constraints so readily applied to the "disabled", and journeying into wild nature, Warren casts off the shackles and goes in search of the personal freedom he enjoyed before his horrific accident two years before. The Second Step is the profound story of one mans extraordinary courage and determination to take back control of his life.
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After Warren Macdonald lost both legs in a hiking accident, you would think he'd never want to see the bush again. But less than two years later he is the first above-knee amputee to scale Tasmania's treacherous Federation Peak. His harrowing four-week trek - through plains of waist-deep mud, flooded rivers and storms of hail - was captured in the documentary The Second Step. The 30-minute film, by director and cinematographer Gary Caganoff, provides a unique insight into the unshakeable determination that drove Macdonald. He recalls how he lost his legs after an accident on Mount Bowen, on Hinchinbrook Island off the North Queensland coast, in April, 1997. 'After setting up camp for the night I went to take a leak. I started climbing a steep wall to move away from the creek. The next thing I know I am flat on my back with this incredible weight grinding down into my legs,' he says. A section of rock had broken free, sending him crashing down into the creek bed. A one-tonne boulder crushed his legs and pelvis. He was pinned there for two days - and came close to drowning as the water level in the creek rose - while his companion hiked out for help. When help finally arrived, the rescue crew took two-and-a-half hours to free him. Incredibly, Macdonald survived. His legs didn't. They were amputated at the mid-thigh. 'I had 13 operations in 18 days. For the first two weeks, I was sure I was going to die,'' he says.``Taking control of what was left of my life was largely a case of overcoming each small obstacle as it arose.' Macdonald was told he'd never walk again. Ten months later he dragged his butt up Cradle Mountain. 'Over three gruelling days I dragged myself up Cradle Mountain. This gave me a taste of what I thought I lost and I wanted more.' More was Federation Peak, an infamously difficult climb across jagged ranges buffeted by icy Antarctic winds. 'When I climbed Cradle Mountain I knew what I was getting into, so it was almost like reclaiming somet --The Age www.theage.com.au
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THE SECOND STEP- WARREN MACDONALD S EPIC JOURNEY TO FEDERATION PEAK Award winning (8 international awards) inspirational documentary film on double leg amputee Warren Macdonald s epic 28-day journey to Federation Peak, Australia s most challenging mountain. DVD includes Will Gadd's film "Part Animal, Part Machine" which captures Warren's ascent of the 600ft frozen waterfall, Weeping Wall; PLUS Timmy O'Neill's Kroykees! featuring Warren s 3 day climb of Yosemite's 2,800ft big wall, El Capitan. Winner of 8 International Awards: Banff Mountain Film Festival- Grand Prize (2002) Kendal Mountain Film Festival- Best Mountaineering Film (2002) Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival- Jury Award (2003) Telluride Mountainfilm- Human Spirit awards (2002) Moscow International Festival of Mountaineering and Adventure Films- Special Prize (2003) Spanish Sports Film Fest- Sports Award, Santendar (2003) Woodford Folk Festival Film Fest- Woodford Rocket (2003) Special Jury Award, Explorers Club Documentary Film Festival (2006) All of have the ability to pull off some pretty incredible things, the difference is, some people are afraid of taking that first step. In the heart of South West Tasmania's magnificent World Heritage wilderness stands Federation Peak, one of Australia's most challenging mountains. Against all the odds, Warren Macdonald spends 28 days hiking to and climbing the peak, becoming the first double above-knee amputee ever to do so. Walking away from the social constraints so readily applied to the "disabled", and journeying into wild nature, Warren casts off the shackles and goes in search of the personal freedom he enjoyed before his horrific accident two years before. The Second Step is the profound story of one mans extraordinary courage and determination to take back control of his life.
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