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Event Details

  • Date:08 Jul 2025

  • Time:12:00pm - 01:00pm

  • Location: AEST, Online

Event description

The Vision Australia Library have the privilege of interviewing adventurer, climber, kayaker and author Erik Weihenmayer. Erik’s accomplishments are phenomenal, earning him the prized front cover of Time Magazine. But his challenges entailed more than mountain peaks. Erik is blind, having lost his vision to retinoschisis as a teenager.

“Shortly after going blind, I received a newsletter in braille about a group taking blind kids rock climbing. I thought to myself, who would be crazy enough to take a blind kid rock climbing? So, I signed up! Although there was a lot of flailing and struggle in those early days, the freedom of attacking a challenge and problem solving my way through it invigorated me and helped me to feel less trapped by blindness.”

— Erik Weihenmayer

Join Dave Tredinnick as he spends an hour In Conversation with Erik, discussing his life, his accomplishments and his bestselling books.

About Erik Weihenmayer

Erik is best known for being the only blind climber to ascend the Seven Summits – the highest peaks on each continent, including Mount Everest in 2001.

Erik has also climbed frozen waterfalls in Nepal and Canada, volcanoes in Ecuador and Chile, Colorado's Rocky Mountains and the towering cliffs of the Italian Dolomites.

In 2014, he kayaked the entire 277 miles of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

Erik’s best-selling memoir Touch the Top of the World was made into a feature film. After the success of this debut novel, Erik also wrote The Adversity Advantage and No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon.

Registration

This is a free online event open to the Vision Australia community, hosted on Tuesday, July 8 at 12pm AEST.

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