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...Everest climb, Scaturro and Erik assembled a team that combined veteran Everest climbers and trusted friends of Erik's. Scaturro wrote up a Braille proposal for the Everest attempt and submitted it to Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind. Maurer immediately pledged $250,000 to sponsor the climb. (Aventis Pharmaceuticals agreed to sponsor a documentary on the climb to promote Allegra, its allergy medication; Erik suffers from seasonal allergies.) For Erik, who already had numerous gear and clothing sponsors, this was the greatest challenge of his life. If he failed, he would be letting down...
...Look around, dude," Evans told the blind man when they were standing on top of the world. "Just take a second and look around...
Despite the abundance of access, Greenfeld says, Weihenmayer's story was harder to get in many ways than that of the royal murders. "There was more nuance to it. Trying to understand what a blind person goes through every day is a struggle. Trying to understand what he went through when he climbed Everest is even more difficult...
...simple. Karl Taro Greenfeld, TIME Asia's deputy editor, probably thought he had a straightforward, if somewhat unusual, profiling assignment facing him when he touched down in Kathmandu, Nepal, two Fridays ago. He was there to write this week's cover story, the heroic tale of Erik Weihenmayer, a blind man who had scaled Mount Everest. But in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Greenfeld was roused in order to track down a different beast altogether--the story behind the assassinations of the King, Queen and much of the royal family of Nepal by the Crown Prince...
...Greenfeld got both tales: the news of a bizarre tragedy and the examination of an unfathomable triumph. For all of us who are tempted to put people into categories, like "rich-therefore-happy" or "blind-therefore-disabled," these two stories are a reminder to resist...