On July 26, 2003, the then 19-year-old Hannes took part in a charity motorcycle race in Upper Austria and fell badly. “When I found out on the phone, the world stopped turning for me as a father,” thinks back the former motocross world champion Heinz Kinigadner. Then in the hospital the diagnosis: injury to the fifth cervical vertebra and spinal cord. Hannes is completely paraplegic from the neck down. “Suddenly you don’t feel your body anymore. I can only move my arms and hands to a limited extent and I need help with dressing, eating, drinking and washing. Actually everything.” In 2004 Heinz Kinigadner and his friend Dietrich Mateschitz founded the Wings for Life foundation. The goal: paraplegia should be cured. “I was and still am convinced that the situation will not stay that way for Hannes and everyone else affected. To do this, we promote cutting-edge research all over the world.”