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Divyanshu Ganatra lost his sight to glaucoma when he was just 19 but that did not deter him from living his life. For this 39-year-old clinical psychologist, life is as normal as it can get for any able-bodied person. So much so that he is such an adventure sports enthusiast from trekking to scuba diving to paragliding, he does them all. He became the first visually-challenged person in India to be a solo paraglider and he has to his credit a successful expedition to Milam Glacier in the Kumaon hills’ of Uttarakhand in the Himalayas, among others. Divyanshu now promotes adventure sports among persons with disabilities along with able-bodied persons through his social initiative ‘Adventure Beyond Barriers’. UPDATE: In August 2017, he successfully completed India's first ever inclusive tandem cycling expedition InSync from Manali to Khardungla, a distance of 540 km in 9 days for the second consecutive time. This podcast was recorded before he embarked on this expedition. You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcast App on Android: https://goo.gl/tGYdU1 or iOS: https://goo.gl/sZSTU5 You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/