Adversity...

Christopher Reeves was in an accident on May 27, 1995, which put him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He was thrown from his horse during an eventing competition in Culpeper, Virginia. This is what made him a quadriplegic. Though that did not stop him, he then decided on a new role in the world as the founder of Chritopher Reeve Foundation and co-founded the Reeve-Irvine Research Center. The foundations help people with spinal cord injuries much like his own.