Niki Rellon: A Long Trail to Healing
Healing takes a unique path for everyone. For Niki Rellon, a below-the-knee amputee, recovery from a climbing accident (a 40-foot fall) is happening one step at a time along the 2,168-mile Appalachian Trail.
Niki, with the trail name of “Bionic Woman,” is a life-long athlete—a skier, climber, competitive boxer, and notably, a German Women’s Welterweight Kick Boxing Champion. She’s solo-ridden a bike from Alaska to Mexico City and backpacked the entire Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada by herself. She’s made a living as a certified Paramedic, ski instructor and ski patrol in Colorado, among other things.
But in a tragic instant, life as she knew it changed forever.
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