RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- It's perhaps Rio de Janeiro's hardest trail, featuring one particularly daunting section requiring a perilous scramble that can cause hikers to freeze up with fright.

But this week, Ezequiel da Luz, a 40-year-old paraplegic, traversed jungle and surmounted rocks to reach Pedra da Gavea's peak that towers over the Atlantic Ocean.

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