Climbing Blind
by American Way Staff[dl] FILM
An experienced climber pushes a group of
sightless, teenage novices toward the top of a mountain in the new
documentary Blindsight.
By Elisabeth Deffner
Climbing to the top of the Seven
Summits - the highest peak on each continent - is unquestionably
difficult. That's why fewer than 200 people have ever done it.
Harder, still, is climbing to the top of the Seven Summits without
being able to see - at all. That's why only one person, Erik
Weihenmayer - a 39-year-old resident of Golden, Colorado, who was
born legally blind and lost his vision completely at age 13 - has
ever done it.
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