{"id":199834,"date":"2025-03-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/?p=199834"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:58:44","slug":"first-blind-person-to-summit-mount-everest-with-erik-weihenmayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/podcasts\/first-blind-person-to-summit-mount-everest-with-erik-weihenmayer","title":{"rendered":"First Blind Person to Summit Mount Everest with Erik Weihenmayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"200px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/01ccda2a-dec5-4919-82ed-f7fbb9d61a11?dark=false\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wild-ideas-worth-living.simplecast.com\/episodes\/first-blind-person-to-summit-mount-everest-with-erik-weihenmayer\/transcript\">Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erik Weihenmayer made history in 2001 as the first blind person to summit Mount Everest. By 2008, he had completed the Seven Summits, the tallest mountains on each continent. Since then, Erik has embraced a wide range of adventure sports from paragliding in the Rocky Mountains and ice climbing in Nepal to kayaking the length of the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connect with Erik:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erikweihenmayer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Website<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/erikweihenmayer\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No Barriers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nobarriersusa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nobarriersusa\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boundfornowhere.com\/camp-nowhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Camp Nowhere Podcast&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to our sponsors:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Capital One and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/membership\/mastercard?trackingId=podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the REI Co-op\u00ae Mastercard\u00ae\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/b\/honey-stinger\/c\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Honey Stinger<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript Erik Weihenmayer made history in 2001 as the first blind person to summit Mount Everest. 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