Showing posts with label Man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Man. Show all posts
Strange Man with half a body defies the odds by 'fathering a child'
Despite only having half a body, Kenny Easterday insists he can live the life of a normal man.
Now he appears to have proved it after claiming he has fathered a child.
Easterday, 35, was born with a rare condition called sacral agenesis, which prevented his spine from developing normally.
When he was just six months old, doctors amputated Kenny's legs and used part of his shinbone to complete his partially-formed spine.
Kenny is so small he can fit inside a suitcase but that hasn't stopped him playing pool, bowling, working - or having a love life with fianceé Nicky, 33.
In an American television documentary, he and Nicky revealed that they were together seven years ago - after which she became pregnant with her daughter, Desiree.
The pair are soon to found out if Desiree is actually Kenny's child. And they hope to start a new family to join Nicky's two children.
Kenny's greatest dream is to have a child, he revealed in the documentary.
'I want a child to carry my name, someone that can carry my legacy and be able to say 'Well that's my daddy',' he said.
Kenny was not expected to live past 21.
As a boy Kenny was offered prosthetic legs but he hated wearing them and preferred to use his hands or a skateboard to get around.
'My dad pretty much taught me how to walk on my hands,' said Kenny, from West Virginia, USA.
'I just told him to walk behind his mother, because she walks like a duck so just walk like her,' Kenny's father said in documentary made about his life.
As a child Kenny starred in the 1988 film, The Kid Brother, a dramatised version of his early life.
'If I'm handicapped it's because of these damn legs,' Kenny said in the film as he pushes over his prosthetic legs.
See Kenny in the TLC documentary here
Now he appears to have proved it after claiming he has fathered a child.
Easterday, 35, was born with a rare condition called sacral agenesis, which prevented his spine from developing normally.
When he was just six months old, doctors amputated Kenny's legs and used part of his shinbone to complete his partially-formed spine.Kenny is so small he can fit inside a suitcase but that hasn't stopped him playing pool, bowling, working - or having a love life with fianceé Nicky, 33.
In an American television documentary, he and Nicky revealed that they were together seven years ago - after which she became pregnant with her daughter, Desiree.The pair are soon to found out if Desiree is actually Kenny's child. And they hope to start a new family to join Nicky's two children.
Kenny's greatest dream is to have a child, he revealed in the documentary.'I want a child to carry my name, someone that can carry my legacy and be able to say 'Well that's my daddy',' he said.
Kenny was not expected to live past 21.As a boy Kenny was offered prosthetic legs but he hated wearing them and preferred to use his hands or a skateboard to get around.
'My dad pretty much taught me how to walk on my hands,' said Kenny, from West Virginia, USA.
'I just told him to walk behind his mother, because she walks like a duck so just walk like her,' Kenny's father said in documentary made about his life.As a child Kenny starred in the 1988 film, The Kid Brother, a dramatised version of his early life.
'If I'm handicapped it's because of these damn legs,' Kenny said in the film as he pushes over his prosthetic legs.
See Kenny in the TLC documentary here
Crazy Man Scared of heights just an inch-thick cord between him and a drop twice as high as Canary Wharf Tower
With just an inch-wide strip of material separating him from a drop twice the height of Canary Wharf, this is Austrian daredevil Heinz Zak practising the new craze of 'highlining' in the German Alps.
These never-before-seen pictures show danger man Zak tiptoeing along at the peak of Germany's highest mountain - the colossal 1,746m Zugspitze.
And if that isn't terrifying enough - he even completed a 10-metre section of the crossing without a safety line.
Highlining requires nerves even more steely than tight-roping because participants take their precarious steps along a loosely anchored strip instead of a rope made rigid through tension.
It means the highline will bounce and wobble as they shift their weight taking each measured step.
Heinz walked three knee-trembling sections at the Zugspitze in turn, covering a total of 70 metres.
'A highline had never been attempted before at the Zugspitze and I wanted to conquer it,' he said.
'It was difficult to complete all three stages as the area is very exposed to wind. This made the middle section with no safety line more challenging.
'We had to keep coming back over several days to weigh up if we could attempt each section.'
For the past eight years Heinz has toured the world looking for the perfect spots to practise his art.
Today he is regarded as a pioneer who led the sport's development and currently booming growth in Europe.
But defying anyone who thinks he's just another stuntman looking for the next rush, the daredevil, from the Austrian town of Scharnitz, oddly said it's all about finding peace and 'losing himself'.
'What I do is not about adrenaline,' he said. 'Walking a highline is my way. It's just what I do.'
To achieve his miracles at dizzying altitudes, Heinz puts all his faith in equipment that includes the one-inch polyester line.
'One problem is that when it is taut and taking my weight, the slightest snag on a rock could break the line," he says.
Super-fit Heinz stays in perfect shape but it's days of mental preparation he values the most.
Like a bobsleigh pilot who must know every twist and turn on his track to avoid death, Heinz runs through each attempt repeatedly in his mind before stepping out.
'When I attempt a walk at the edge of my limits I just have to think it through over and over before I I go up,' he said.
'You have to see yourself taking each step and reaching the end.'
These never-before-seen pictures show danger man Zak tiptoeing along at the peak of Germany's highest mountain - the colossal 1,746m Zugspitze.
And if that isn't terrifying enough - he even completed a 10-metre section of the crossing without a safety line.
Highlining requires nerves even more steely than tight-roping because participants take their precarious steps along a loosely anchored strip instead of a rope made rigid through tension.
It means the highline will bounce and wobble as they shift their weight taking each measured step.
Heinz walked three knee-trembling sections at the Zugspitze in turn, covering a total of 70 metres.
'A highline had never been attempted before at the Zugspitze and I wanted to conquer it,' he said.
'It was difficult to complete all three stages as the area is very exposed to wind. This made the middle section with no safety line more challenging.'We had to keep coming back over several days to weigh up if we could attempt each section.'
For the past eight years Heinz has toured the world looking for the perfect spots to practise his art.
Today he is regarded as a pioneer who led the sport's development and currently booming growth in Europe.
But defying anyone who thinks he's just another stuntman looking for the next rush, the daredevil, from the Austrian town of Scharnitz, oddly said it's all about finding peace and 'losing himself'.
'What I do is not about adrenaline,' he said. 'Walking a highline is my way. It's just what I do.'
To achieve his miracles at dizzying altitudes, Heinz puts all his faith in equipment that includes the one-inch polyester line.
'One problem is that when it is taut and taking my weight, the slightest snag on a rock could break the line," he says.
Super-fit Heinz stays in perfect shape but it's days of mental preparation he values the most.
Like a bobsleigh pilot who must know every twist and turn on his track to avoid death, Heinz runs through each attempt repeatedly in his mind before stepping out.
'When I attempt a walk at the edge of my limits I just have to think it through over and over before I I go up,' he said.
'You have to see yourself taking each step and reaching the end.'
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