After a stroke left him partially paralyzed, lifelong outdoorsman Geoff Babb set out to design a wheelchair that could truly take him anywhere.
Geoff Babb has always been an outdoorsman. Around the mountains and valleys of Washington State, where he grew up, Babb was an avid climber, mountain biker, skier, hiker and runner. He started a career in biomanagement with the Nature Conservancy and later the Bureau of Land Management working as a fire ecologist. “My whole life was really based around being outside,” said Babb, who now lives in Bend, Oregon.
“I’m in a wheelchair because I have a mitochondrial disease, which is a progressive genetic disorder that affects pretty much everything in my body and makes me extremely tired and fatigued easily,” Shannon said.
For the majority of his life, Shannon hasn’t been able to go on hikes. This is now his fourth time using the AdvenChair.
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