# Erik Weihenmayer
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erik weihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) is an American athlete, adventurer, author, activist and motivational speaker. He is the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001. As a result of this accomplishment he was featured on the cover of Time magazine.
Erik Weihenmayer: World Renowned Blind Adventurer (ep. 866)
Erik Weihenmayer is an adventurer, bestselling author, and motivational speaker… but he's perhaps best known as the first blind person to summit Mount Everest. After losing his vision as a teenager, Erik refused to let blindness define his limits. Instead, he became a world-class climber, kayaker, …
Become a responsible guide to the spiritually blind
He hasn’t done it all, but he’s done a lot. Erik Weihenmayer has summited Mount Everest as well as becoming one of the 150 climbers in the world who had, at the time, climbed the other six highest peaks in the world. He has kayaked 277 miles through the treacherous white waters of the Grand Canyon,…
#182. From Survival to Empowerment: Education & Support for Single Moms with Gail Showalter
In this warm, practical conversation, host Desiree Stanley sits down with Gail—speaker, author, and founder of Single Moms Empowered—who has spent nearly two decades turning her hardest season into lasting support for women navigating single motherhood.
Gail shares how she returned to college with …
WWDTM: Erik Weihenmayer
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. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of person…
E19: My Mt. Rushmore of Inspiration: The Athletes Who Teach Us How to Show Up
In sports, we often debate who’s the “greatest of all time.” But what if we focused instead on who inspires us the most? In this episode, I share my personal Mt. Rushmore of inspirational athletes—Terry Fox, Erik Weihenmayer, Alex Smith, and Chaunté Lowe—whose stories aren’t about trophies or recor…
Earned Not Given | Connor Koch on Risk Tolerance, Resilience, and the Road to Becoming a Hunter
EP 681: Connor Koch
Some episodes just take a minute to get right. We lost the first version of this one — somewhere out there is an SD card with what I’m sure was a hell of a conversation — and you know what? Maybe that was the universe telling us to go again. Because this one hit different.
Con…
Redeem Your Time: Be the Eunuch!
In this follow-up episode of The Guide Service Podcast, Paul Turner continues the discussion on redeeming the time by asking a challenging question:
“If I had been blessed with less… would I accomplish more?”
Using the incredible story of Erik Weihenmayer—the blind adventurer who summited Mount Eve…
Wholehearted - James 1 - Listening & Doing
In our episode today, Will takes us through James' very practical instruction to not only listen to what God says to us, but to be eager to put it into practice.
He highlights the story of Erik Weihenmayer, a blind climber who climbed Everest and the Seven Summits, and also kayaked the Grand Canyon…
Luis Benitez on Guiding the First Blind Climber up Everest and What It Taught Him About Leadership
A kid with asthma and allergies growing up in Saint Louis is not the profile you'd guess for someone who ends up standing on the summit of Everest six times. Luis Benitez did exactly that, and along the way became the guide who led Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind climber, to the top of the world.…
S3E26 - Italy and No Barriers summits
The People Make the Places, Mike May and Friends.
Episode 26, October , 2026.
Italy and the No Barriers summits over 30 years.
This episode includes various trips to Italy from the 90s to Sicily this year. Erik Weihenmayer talks about the No Barriers summits including in Italy.
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