Insights from the Blind Man who Summitted Everest Insights from the Blind Man who Summitted Everest Living Well...together, while apart Katelyn Sander / Sunday, March 7, 2021 0 22 Erik Weihenmayer is the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. I have never met Erik, but he seems to me a unique and remarkable soul who chooses to see every challenge as an opportunity. Read more