This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Erik Weihenmayer" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(July 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Erik Weihenmayer
Weihenmayer on Mount Sherman, Colorado, a 14,000 ft. peak
Born
(1968-09-23) September 23, 1968 (age 55)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater
Weston High School
Occupation(s)
Adventurer, motivational speaker, author
Known for
High Ground
Website
erikweihenmayer.com
Erik Weihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) 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.[1][2][3] Due to this accomplishment he was featured on the cover of Time magazine. He completed the Seven Summits in September 2002, one of only 150 mountaineers at the time to do so, but the only climber who achieved this while blind. 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.
In 2005, he co-founded No Barriers, a nonprofit organization that helps people of diverse backgrounds and abilities to attack challenges head on, problem solve, build winning teams, and serve others. In September 2014, Weihenmayer and blinded Navy veteran Lonnie Bedwell kayaked the entire 277 miles (446 km) of the Grand Canyon, considered one of the most formidable whitewater locations in the world. Today, while still adventuring, he is a prominent worldwide speaker, focusing on the topic of living a "No Barriers Life."
ErikWeihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) is an American athlete, adventurer, author, activist and motivational speaker. He was the first blind person...
June 18, 2001 edition of Time magazine, worn by blind climber ErikWeihenmayer. Weihenmayer was the first blind climber to summit Mount Everest. By 2001...
In 2006, he was cast in Touch the Top of the World, a true story of ErikWeihenmayer, the first blind person to climb Mount Everest. The film is based on...
influential people – appearing third in the "Heroes & Pioneers" section. ErikWeihenmayer, the first blind person to climb Mount Everest, wrote in an essay that...
descent by ski by Davo Karničar 2001: First ascent by a blind climber, ErikWeihenmayer 2001: Lhakpa Sherpa becomes first Nepali woman to summit Everest and...
Regiment in the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was blinded during battle. ErikWeihenmayer – First blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Jack Birkett...
experienced a love so mythic — it's the emotive equivalent of cheering for ErikWeihenmayer, the blind man who conquered Everest." Veeyen of Nowrunning.com rated...
expedition in Tibet under the leadership of blind Everest mountaineer ErikWeihenmayer. The prize-winning documentary Blindsight about this expedition was...
analyst and former NFL wide receiver Lenny Walls, 2002, NFL cornerback ErikWeihenmayer, 1991, mountaineer, first blind person to reach summit of Mount Everest...
Kilimanjaro Blind Trust, a foundation he created alongside fellow climber ErikWeihenmayer, to benefit blind children in Africa, and chair of the Perkins International...
disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982. 2001 – ErikWeihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest...
previously served as official photographer to former First Lady Laura Bush. ErikWeihenmayer is an American educator, athlete, adventurer, author, activist and...
Whittaker United States May 27, 1998 Blind Summited Everest via South Col ErikWeihenmayer United States May 25, 2001 Cystic fibrosis Summited Everest Nick Talbot...
martial artist Dustin Poirier, stock car racing driver Ryan Newman, and ErikWeihenmayer, the first blind man to climb to the top of Mount Everest. In October...
Micronesia, and The Amazing Race 31 Jason Wade, lead singer of Lifehouse ErikWeihenmayer, first blind person to summit Mt. Everest "ACS WASC Commission – Accrediting...
Education" gives the story of a blind man who climbs Mount Everest, ErikWeihenmayer, as an example of the supercrip narrative. The Paralympics are another...
the first person to descend on a snowboard. On May 25, 32-year-old ErikWeihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, became the first blind person to reach the summit...
Down) June 16, 2006: "But He's Gay" (A newswoman mistakenly identifies ErikWeihenmayer, who climbed Mount Everest as gay instead of blind.) June 23, 2006:...
brought into the stadium by ErikWeihenmayer, the first blind person to climb Mount Everest, and his guide dog. Weihenmayer passed the torch to skiers...
of the documentary film Blindsight about the climbing project with ErikWeihenmayer and teens from the School for the Blind/Lhasa in the Himalaya Sabriye...
McGovern, Pete Seeger, activist Julia Butterfly Hill, climber/author ErikWeihenmayer, and columnist/reporter Amy Goodman. Nick and Helen Forster present...
Coloradoan, January 29, 2002, front page and page A2. "Olympic Torch Relay X Weihenmayer", Getty Images, January 30, 2002, Web. "Former Olympic cyclist Davis...
Global Information
