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  1. A conversation with mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer
    A conversation with mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer

    with Erik Weihenmayer on Jun 12, 2001

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Erik Weihenmayer is the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001. He also completed the Seven Summits in September 2002. He is author of “Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man’s Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye can See”, his autobiography. Erik is an acrobatic skydiver, long distance biker, marathon runner, skier, mountaineer, ice climber, and rock climber.

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