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Alex survives Strep A which leads to a quadruple amputation and facial disfigurement.

The Alex Lewis Trust is founded. The Trust enabled Alex to carry out his first public speaking engagement at Warminster School and begin filming of ‘The Extraordinary Case of Alex Lewis’. The bull logo is adopted.

Alex's first end user led PhD research project at Imperial College London with Sam Wilson. A hand cycle and sports prosthetics are purchased. Alex carries out 15,000ft tandem sky dive over Salisbury to raise awareness.

The Trust enables Alex to become the first quadruple amputee to kayak around the Southern tip of Greenland with The Pilgrim Bandits. The university research network is extended and ‘The Extraordinary Case of Alex Lewis’ is released on C4.

Alex becomes the first quadruple amputee to kayak 300km along the Orange River in South Africa. He carries out over 20 public speaking engagements and co-founds Imperial College Spin Out with SERG Technologies and The Wild Wheelchairs Project.

A local philanthropist provides funding for a collaboration with Southampton University for end user led research, this became known as The Wild Wheelchairs Project. The world’s first solar assisted battery powered 4 wheeled hand cycle is designed and built by a team of Masters students. Karen Betts carries out Alex’s facial tattooing finishing the transformation of his face. The university network is extended and the number of student projects increase. Alex starts public speaking internationally and begins filming Alex Lewis Mountain.

Alex successfully summits the highest mountain in Ethiopia using the world's first solar assisted battery powered 4 wheel hand cycle. He co-creates knowledge sharing university networks between Ethiopia and the UK. The Wild Wheelchairs Project enables the enhancement of an existing wheelchair facility in Bahir Dar which now provides AT devices to Northern Ethiopia at affordable prices.

Alex co-creates Project Limitless and raises over £600,000. Our local philanthropist funds the development of a second 4 wheeled hand cycle. This one is solar assisted in order that it can cross a desert.

Despite Lockdown, Alex is able to support a number of student design projects virtually and continue Project Limitless.

Alex is supported to become the first quadruple amputee to cross the Namib Desert on a wheelchair using an e-powered wheelchair attachment. Sponsors fund the repurposing of a Flying 15 sail boat into a rowing boat for Alex’s next challenge, The Pig 2 Pig.

Alex becomes the first quadruple amputee to hand cycle 220km around Salisbury Plain over 19hrs non stop. He travels to Ukraine to set out a model to supply upper limb prosthetics to injured service personnel and civilians. Alex Lewis Mountain is screened at The Beverley Hills Film Festival in Hollywood.

Alex is supported in the Pig 2 Pig initiative during which he becomes the first quadruple amputee to off shore row 350 miles across the South of England. He raises £30,000 for charity.

The For the Love of Assistive Technology Foundation (FLOAT) is founded and receives charitable status.

FLOAT Foundation organises sponsored lane swim at Tooting Bec Lido on 22nd June in aid of Project Limitless UK.

Rowing race covering 21.6 miles from Millwall to Richmond on 20th September. Sponsorship required to help Alex take part and raise money for the FLOAT Foundation.

Alex Lewis North Atlantic Row takes place in June. Alex requires sponsorship to complete the world record breaking 3000 mile row in aid of the FLOAT Foundation.

Sponsorship required to help Alex develop the world's first e-powered rowing boat at Kings College London.