This brave triple amputee can surf, snowboard and has now walked across the stage to receive his degree - 20 years after being told he’d never walk again.

Cameron Clapp, 35, was hit by a train in September 2001, losing both of his legs above the knee and his right arm at the shoulder.

But Cameron refused to accept this and just five months later was able to walk independently on prosthetic legs.

“There I was across the street and that’s the last thing I remember,” said Cameron, of San Luis Obispo, California, who grew up across the train tracks from the beach.

“The first clinician we went to told my parents ‘get a good wheelchair, Cameron’s never going to walk again'.

“At the time you have a lot of insecurities and fears because you don’t know where life is going to go when you wake up in the hospital and realize you’re a trilateral amputee,” he said.

“But I’ve always been a fighter, a very outgoing, athletic, determined individual, and this was a new challenge for me that I took on.”

Since then, Cameron has been able to regain his athletic life, snowboarding, surfing and even running half marathons with his prosthetic limbs.

“Going through this journey of recovery and becoming proficient with prosthetic limbs has been incredible,” he said.

“I’m completely independent - I live by myself, I drive a car, I do everything.

“I live life to the fullest with 100 percent full time prosthetic legs.”

Four years ago, Cameron decided to return to college, balancing it with his time mentoring others with limb loss and teaching other bilateral above-knee amputees how to walk and navigate their new lives at the Hanger Clinic, the same clinic he received help and support from.

On June 13, he graduated summa cu m laude and walked across the stage on his prosthetic legs to receive his B.A. in sociology from California Polytechnic State University.

This clips featured within this video were filmed throughout 2012-2013.