Erik Weihenmayer
Blind American climber · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1968 · age 58
Erik Weihenmayer is an American athlete, adventurer, author, activist and motivational speaker. He was the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001. Due to this accomplishment he was featured on the cover of Time magazine.
Erik Weihenmayer is read about 109 times a day, in 17 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
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Reel Rock 18Film2023
SoundscapeFilm2021
Welcome to EarthSeries2019
Fine LinesFilm2018
The Weight of WaterFilm, Himself2014
Bear Grylls: Man vs EverestFilm2006
BlindsightFilm
Mountains Without BarriersFilm, 2006
Touch the Top of the WorldFilm, 2006Writer2003
Farther Than the Eye Can SeeFilm2000
Masters of Stone VFilm1968Born23 September 1968Also in Deutsch
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About this person
He completed the Seven Summits in September 2002, one of only 150 mountaineers at the time to do so, but the only blind climber to achieve this feat. In 2008, he also added the Carstensz Pyramid thus completing the Eight Summits. Weihenmayer has also made noteworthy climbs up the Nose of El Capitan in Yosemite in 1996, and ascended Losar, a 2,700-foot (820 m) vertical ice face in the Himalayas in 2008.
