Connelly: Losing your eyesight and gaining the summit of Mt. Everest
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Elbrus, Weihenmayer said in Seattle Thursday, was negotiating -- repeatedly -- the treacherous Khumbu Icefall at the start of the climb. "I dont think ladders erected by Sherpas across the crevasses in the Khumbu Icefall met standards of the Americans With Disabilities Act," he joked. Weihenmayer was here plugging No Barriers, a non-profit he co-founded that takes physically challenged people on expedition climbs, four-day immersion experiences in outdoor sports, and Colorado-based adventure programs for youth. "Amazing technologies" have "blasted open" opportunities, Weihenmayer explained, allowing paraplegic climbers to scale vertical walls of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, and for a "wounded warriors" group of vets to summit 13,804-foot Gannett Peak in Wyomings Wind River Range. Several "hundred-year storms,"already in this century, have wreaked havoc on lowland recreation in the national forests of Western Washington.
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