Intrepid Italian radio ham Ambrogio Fogar dies

Legendary Italian radio ham Ambrogio Fogar, I2NSF, has died 12 years after an accident during the notorious Paris-to-Beijing car rally left him totally paralysed.

Ambrogio was an adventurer extraordinaire, always on the look out for new dare devil challenges to stretch his prodigious physical and mental capacities to the limit.

He circumnavigated the world in a yacht, was adrift for 74 days in the Atlantic on a raft, and made an attempt to reach the North Pole on foot. One of Italy 's most colourful characters, he also found time to manage a popular Italian television programme called Jonathan.

Following his accident in the Paris-to-Beijing rally, he became a tireless disabled rights campaigner, making numerous appeals to prevent prohibition of scientific research that could help cure paralysis.

His motto was: “I keep going because I hope that one day I'll be able to walk again, get out of this bed on my own legs, and look at the sky”.

Source: GB2RS News - Courtesy of the RSGB

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