Kenny Salvini is hitting the slopes after nearly 10-years since his skiing accident. With the help from Outdoors for All, Kenny is back skiing on the mountain.

Kenny met up with King5 news in Seattle to share his story of victory!

Here is the story:

Kenny Salvini, loves extreme sports, has been skiing since the tender age of three years old, and by the age of 23, he had long surpassed the label of expert. On February 11, 2004, Salvini and his dad went with a few friends skiing in Snoqualmie Pass, Washington as they regularly did every Wednesday. Salvini came across a part of the summit that had an x-game-type terrain park. He had been in the terrain park skiing a few times before that year and felt comfortable with it.

During his first run at the park, he hit the defectively designed and contracted tabletop jump at the base of the Summit. He flew nearly four stories (40 feet) up in the air, at a speed of nearly 35 mph. Salvini crashed down on compact ice and snow. Upon impact, he had a huge headache and his neck hurt. He thought to himself that he should get up and walk it off, but he soon realized that nothing was moving. As he said, "I recognized the situation instantly, I was paralyzed." The impact severed his spinal cord between c-3 and c-4 vertebrae. He was rushed to the hospital and spent three months in recovery.

Unfortunately, nine days later, after Salvini's accident at the Summit, instructor Peter Melrose died at the foot of a different jump in the same ski area.

Salvini lives his life as a quadriplegic. Able to move only his head and shoulders, Kenny is thankful to be alive and as he says, "I find consolation in the fact that there still is a life for me to live. All I can do is take it (life) one day at a time and see what they each teach me." This tragedy not only affected Salvini, but his family too. With one crash landing, his life went from calm to a whirlwind of chaos and pain. As Salvini says, "As I laid there, confused and terrified in a hospital bed, my family was wracked with grief and overwhelmed by doctors, nurses, therapists and social workers."

More on this story can be found at:
http://epicvictories.com/ski-snow-spo...