A Wellington man who severely injured his spine and is tetraplegic has climbed the equivalent of Mount Everest in a year. Andrew Leslie walked to the top of Mount Kaukau in the capital 35 times in the past 12 months as part of his rehabilitation. Six years ago, Leslie injured his spinal cord in a mountain bike accident. He spent five months in hospital and had to learn to navigate life as a tetraplegic. "Now, when you hear that word, you probably think about someone being paralysed from the neck down in a wheelchair - and I was for a while. But with spinal cord injury, every injury is different and every outcome is different," he explained. Leslie managed to walk out of Christchurch's Burwood Hospital, but moving his body remained a struggle. He described movement as not coming to him automatically, and having to think about it before getting his body to do it. "I have to make myself move. So I need to use my brain in a different way to be able to take a step.…