Aleksei Retivykh was 11 when he lost his leg but that didn’t stop him from becoming a member of the ski patrol at the Kazakh ski resort Chimbulak, near Almaty. Makes you feel good to see all the support Alekesei is getting through social media in a bid to get him an artificial limb.
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