When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.
Erik WeihenmayerI think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.
Erik WeihenmayerClimbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.
Erik Weihenmayer