Jill Kinmont is promising young skier with a shot at the 1956 Winter Olympics till an accident in a meet before the Olympic try outs cause her to break her back and she is paralyzed from the shoulders down. Jill has to learn a new way of life and after month in hospital she embarks on getting her life together with the help of family and friends. ( )

I recently ran across this book in a used bookstore; I remember reading it when I was teenager. I loved it and I believe a movie was made based on the book. ( )

An inspiring story of Jill Kinmont, rising young Olympic skier, who crashed and burned on a qualifying run. Her subsequent life as a paraplegic is full of heroics, despair, faith, and gritty determination. ( )