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Written by Derek Schimmel - Rocky Mountain Sports   
Wednesday, 01 April 2009

Article Source: Rocky Mountain Sports

Written by -  Derek Schimmel - March 31st, 2009

rms blind climber.jpgOn May 25, 2001, Erik Weihenmayer became the first blind man to summit Mt. Everest. Since then, Weihenmayer, 40, has climbed the Seven Summits (the tallest peaks on every continent), scaled the 3,000-foot rock face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and guided blind Tibetan teenagers to 21,500 feet on the north side of Mt. Everest. His most recent achievement was ice climbing Bridal Veil Falls in Telluride, often considered one of the most difficult ice climbs in the world.

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