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Did you know that Erik Weihenmayer can climb the tallest mountains in the world while he’s completely blind? Erik Weihenmayer was born September 23, 1968, born with a rare eye disease called “retinoschisis(ret·i·nos·chi·sis)” although he was blind, he still wouldn’t accept the fact that he would be swept off his feet, and be miserable for the rest of his life. When he was a teen he got his motivation to go rock climbing. Years later, he started climbing many famous mountains, soon, he was famous for climbing the “Seven Summits”(Aconcagua,Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Denali/McKinley, Vinson and Kosciuszkos/ expedition impossible (that was nearly impossible).

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