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Who is the first and the only blind person to conquer Mount Everest ?

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Who is the first and the only blind person to conquer Mount Everest ?
posted May 12, 2017 by Rahul Lokhandwala

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Erik Weihenmayer (Hong Kong) was born with retinoschisis, an eye condition that left him totally blind by the age of 13. Despite this, on 25 May 2001, he reached the summit of Mount Everest, the first – and so far only – blind man ever to have done so.

answer May 13, 2017 by Shivaranjini
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