Looking at the Paralympics With a New York Times Photographer – The New York Times

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Looking at the Paralympics With a New York Times Photographer

While most of the of journalists who covered the Winter Olympics went home once the games ended, Chang Lee remained to cover the Paralympics, the games for athletes with impairments.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/lens/looking-at-the-paralympics-with-a-new-york-times-photographer.html

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — After parking his car at the Paralympics Alpine skiing venue, Chang W. Lee climbed 40 steep steps, scaled a hill with an imposing gradual incline, passed through security, climbed some more steps, walked up another hill, climbed two more sets of metal steps labeled “Caution: Slippery Surface,” trudged across a flat expanse of snow, scaled another small hill to ride a chair lift, climbed still more slippery steps, trudged across more snow and then finally lumbered down a ramp.