The personal journey of Hugh Herr, a double amputee and MIT scientist who creates brain-controlled robotic limbs. At 17, Hugh survived a near-death experience while climbing Mount Washington. Stunned by the prosthetic he was given, and realizing there was untapped potential for such devices, Hugh set out to improve the field of prosthetics. His innovative success leads to a major scientific breakthrough, a radical new way of performing amputations, and more.

Two athletes. One is a new amputee while the other has been an amputee her whole life. In August 2018, Jim Ewing and Maureen Beck journeyed to the Northwest Territories of Canada to climb the world famous Lotus Flower Tower in the Cirque of the Unclimbables. It would become the first all-adaptive ascent of the peak, if they got to the top.