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...first blind person I ever met," she says. "I fell in love the second I saw him. He had so much confidence and flair for living." Erik first met Ellie Reeve in Arizona, when he was interviewing for a job at Phoenix Country Day School, where she taught. Though she later wondered what sharing her life with a sightless person would be like, she quickly realized that Erik was well equipped to cope with his dark world. "He does things by instinct. When he walks, he doesn't lift his feet, he feels the floor," says Ellie. "The only thing...
...Erik passed out in his tent, the rest of the team gathered in a worried huddle. "I was thinking maybe this is not a good idea," says Scaturro. "Two years of planning, a documentary movie, and this blind guy barely makes it to Camp...
...This blind guy. Erik Weihenmayer, 33, wasn't just another yuppie trekker who'd lost a few rounds to the mountain. Blind since he was 13, the victim of a rare hereditary disease of the retina, he began attacking mountains in his early...
...Erik, as he stumbled through the icefall, was so far out of his comfort zone that he began to speculate on which of those fates might await him. For a moment he flashed on all those clichEs about what blind people are supposed to do?become piano tuners or pencil salesmen?and thought maybe they were stereotypes for good reason. Blind people certainly shouldn't be out here, wandering through an ever changing ice field, measuring the distance over a 1,000-ft.-deep crevasse with climbing poles and then leaping, literally, over and into the unknown...
...blind thrive on patterns: stairs are all the same height, city blocks roughly the same length, curbs approximately the same depth. They learn to identify the patterns in their environment much more than the sighted population do, and to rely on them to plot their way through the world...