Seed: The Listener

Seed: The Listener: "In 1974 Oliver Sacks was climbing a mountain in Norway by himself. It was early afternoon, and he had just begun his descent when a slight misstep sent him careening over a rocky cliff. His left leg was 'twisted grotesquely' beneath his body, his limp knee wracked with pain. 'My knee could not support any weight at all, but just buckled beneath me,' he wrote in A Leg to Stand On. Sacks began to 'row' himself down the mountain, sliding on his back and pushing with his hands, so that his leg, which he'd splinted with his umbrella, was 'hanging nervelessly' in front of him. After a few hours, Sacks was exhausted, but he knew that if he stopped he would not survive the cold night."