WWDTM: Erik Weihenmayer

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Erik Weihenmayer was the first blind person to summit Mt. Everest, but may be best known for a viral news blooper in 2006. He joins us to talk about a very specific kind of fame, plus what life is like as a blind adventurer.

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0:53.0	Later on we're going to be talking to the adventurer Eric Weinmayer,
0:57.0	the first blind person to climb first Mount Everest
1:00.0	and then all the highest peaks on every continent, which is even more impressive to me
1:05.2	after this past week, when I myself swore to never go outside again.
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