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In 2010, he completed the Leadville 100 mountain bike race, with elevations all above 10,000 feet, on a tandem, once again becoming the first blind person to complete a world-class competition. And in 2011, Weihenmayer's Team No Limits raced across the deserts and mountains of Morocco for a month, finishing in second place on the ABC reality ...
Michael Naranjo is a Native American blind sculptor. Born in Santa Clara Pueblo, in Northern New Mexico in 1944, he is a member of the Tewa Tribe. He was raised in Taos, New Mexico. The son of the ceramic artist Rose Naranjo, he made first contact with pottery and art by the side of his mother.
Brian Dickinson (born June 16, 1974) is a climber who soloed the summit of Mount Everest on May 15, 2011, [1] after his Sherpa mountain guide became ill and went back down to high camp (South Col, 26,000'). After taking some pictures and making a radio call, Brian began his descent, but within a few feet, he became snow blind. His vision did ...
Nicholas Saunderson – English mathematician who went blind at the age of twelve months, held in high esteem by Isaac Newton. [111] Geerat J. Vermeij – Dutch-born American evolutionary biologist and paleontologist who went blind at the age of three. [112] Galileo Galilei - Italian astronomer and physicist who went blind at 74, six years ...
Greenberg was born in Buffalo, New York as the oldest of four children. His father Albert was a tailor who died of a heart attack in 1946. Greenberg attended Bennett High School, then entered Columbia University in 1958 on a full scholarship where he roomed with Art Garfunkel and Jerry Speyer, and was a friend of Michael Mukasey.
This mountain's descriptive name was officially adopted in 1934 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. [2] It is so named for a blind arch that formed in 1880 on the northwest face when a rock avalanche fell into the valley. [3] This event buried the Gifford farm in rubble. It happened on a Sunday when the family was away at church in ...
An Australian woman went blind for three weeks following a tattoo that left the sclera of her eyeballs bright blue. In an interview with Barcroft TV last month, 24-year-old Amber Luke, of Brisbane ...
Marianela is an 1878 Spanish novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, in which a blind boy falls in love with an unattractive girl, who is afraid to meet him when he recovers his sight. "The Country of the Blind" by H. G. Wells tells the story of a mountaineer who finds himself stranded in an isolated valley inhabited entirely by blind people ...