Meet Terry Fox: He lost his leg to bone cancer at 18, then ran 5,373 km across Canada with an artificial leg to raise millions for cancer research before the disease returned

Meet Terry Fox: He lost his leg to bone cancer at 18, then ran 5,373 km across Canada with an artificial leg to raise millions for cancer research before the disease returned

The most striking detail in Terry Fox’s story is the image of a 21-year-old standing at the edge of the Atlantic, dipping his artificial right leg into the water before beginning to run across Canada. On April 12, 1980, that was how Fox started his Marathon of Hope, a journey that would eventually cover 5,373 kilometres in 143 days.