A man paralyzed below the waist climbed more than 820 feet of a skyscraper in Hong Kong to raise money and awareness.
Lai Chai-wai became the first person in a wheelchair to scale the building.
The 37-year-old climber pulled himself up Nina Tower in Kowloon for more than 10 hours.
Lai didn't make it the full 984 feet to the top of the building. The event raised more than HK$5.2 million ($670,639) which will help support those with spinal-cord injuries and assistance programs.
Lai won several rock climbing awards before he was paralyzed from the waist down after a car accident more than 10 years ago. Lai was once the world's eighth-ranked rock climber.
"I was quite scared. Climbing up a mountain, I can hold on to rocks or little holes, but with glass, all I can really rely on is the rope that I'm hanging off," Lai said after the climb.
After his injury Lai continued to climb. He found a way to attach his wheelchair to a pulley which allowed him to continue climbing buildings and mountains. In 2016, Lai climbed the 1,624-foot-high Lion Rock mountain in Hong Kong.
"Apart from just living, I wondered what drives me? So I began to chase that - knowing that there was a possibility I could climb mountains, even in a wheelchair," Lai said.
Lai has said climbing allowed him to forget his injuries. Climbing is his dream and he likes what he is doing.
Lai halted his latest climb as a result of safety. Just short of his goal, winds prevented him from proceeding.
Despite not making it to the top, Lai hoped the event would send a message to all people living with similar injuries.
