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A snowboarder who suffered a serious spinal cord injury is now back on his feet as he makes a determined recovery.

Paul Stewart was told by French and English doctors that he would never walk again after an avalanche in the Alps in December 2008 threw him 200 ft off a cliff, the Daily Telegraph reports.

But just four months after the accident, he had already replaced his wheelchair with a Zimmer frame.

After the accident, Mr Stewart was flown back to Stoke Mandeville Hospital before spending a month in Miami, Florida, where he received advanced spinal cord injury treatment.

The newspaper states that he is determined to make such treatments more widely available, so that more patients can benefit from them.

Earlier this year, the Daily Telegraph's chief sports correspondent warned that professional winter sports competitors are pushing themselves to potentially dangerous levels.

Ian Chadband stated that the speed and complexity of winter sports have reached "ever more hazardous levels".

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