At the age of 17, Hugh Herr had a rock climbing. He became lost with his friend Jeff Batzer on Mount Washington, in New Hampshier. U.S. The weather was terrible, with temperatures below -20. For four days, the two men waited for help in the snow and ice. They didn't have much equipment or any food. When help arrived, Hugh couldn't feel his legs. He spent two months in the hospital and finally lost both legs at the knee. Doctors gave him two artifical legs, but they were painful, and he couldn't continue rock climbimg