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October 10, 2002
Mountain Mail Blind Climber Reveals How
This week on MountainZone.com! On September 5, Erik Weihenmayer became the first blind climber to summit the traditional Seven Summits when he reached the top of Mt. Kosciusko, the highest peak in Australia. Erik speaks exclusively with MountainZone.com in a revealing interview in which he explains how he climbs, physically, and whether he would be climbing if he had not gone blind, "...it is sort of an interesting thought to think that my life might be different if I could see, except in this way: blindness is what happens to you, I think your character is sort of what sort of enables you to push beyond that."
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CLIMB: Erik Weihenmayer
 "When I first started hiking with my dad and my brothers when I was a teenager, my dad would...try to steer my neck."

NEWS: Adventurer Killed
Goran Kropp, who rode his bicycle from Sweden to Everest and climbed it, has died in a rock climbing fall.

CLIMB: Everest
 Ellen Miller last spring achieved something quite rare: A second Everest summit within the span of one year, and by a new route.

WEEKEND JOURNAL: Rockies
"The difference between our climb of this mountain and many of the others is me...I was diagnosed with ... Ventricular Tachyacardia."
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