Ed suffered a fracture dislocation of his C6/C7 vertebrae when diving into the shallow end of a swimming pool. The damage to the left side of his spinal chord meant Ed now suffers from Brown-Sequard syndrome, a neurological condition that results in weakness or paralysis in one side of the body and loss of sensation in the other.
Less than a year after the accident, Ed reached the summit of Snowdon, Wales' highest mountain. From there he has completed a number of adventures including becoming the first person with a spinal chord injury to climb over 7000m.
Ed is now a keynote speaker and broadcaster, working as a rugby reporter for Channel 4 and was one of the key presenters of The Paralympic Games.
