Erik Weihenmayer: The Man Who Summited Everest – While Blind
“I was afraid that I wasn’t going to be able to participate in life,” Erik Weihenmayer remembered thinking after he first went blind at 14. But that’s not how things turned out. Wikimedia CommonsErik Weihenmayer Ever since Sir Edmund Hillary andTenzing Norgaymade the first document summit of Mount Everest in 1953 , climbers have been vie for other “ starting time ” on the mountain . And in 2001 , American mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer execute one of the most astounding Everest first of all when he reached the treacherous peak despite the fact that he was unsighted ....