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This Army Veteran joined the military at 19 because he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do.Now, he’s 22, recovering from a brain tumor and he just wants to walk.

Nearly 400 injured Veterans and active-duty military members will join volunteers and leading medical and rehabilitative professionals from across the nation this week for the 31st National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass Village (near Aspen), Colo.

Hope Cooper is a former Air Force medic staff sergeant, but around the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass, Colorado, the paraplegic Veteran is part camp counselor, part celebrity and all teddy bear.

Disabled Veterans are getting properly fitted by assistive prosthesis teams for adaptive sports equipment needed to participate in activities like downhill skiing, snowmobiling, sled hockey, cross country skiing, snowshoeing and rock climbing this week at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic.

Often referred to as “Miracles on a Mountainside,” the clinic promotes rehabilitation through adaptive Alpine and Nordic skiing, rock climbing, wheelchair self-defense, sled hockey, scuba diving, and other adaptive sports and activities.

Ever wanted to know what it’s like to ski at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic?

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National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic Team Leader, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

The National Disabled Winter Sports Clinic is truly valuable and unique showing that the VA is willing to think outside of the box and treat the Veteran as a whole, mind, body and spirit.