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a blind person. i want to see what my limits are because in the mountains i think i haven't found them yet. over with them. i think it's a powerful message to transmit to blind in disabled people. yeah, sure. it's an adjective, it's a characteristic often, but it's not necessarily a limitation like it because if you try hard with the right team around you or you can do anything with it, what get bizarre. ah, ah, 3 days before he climbs mount kenya, jed, our desk at a guy is enjoying a bit of normality with his 4 year old daughter, emmy a lesson. danny gave me a kiss, you know, have fun, but hello. when i see you guys, hello, j r is a gold medalist over 400 meters at the past 2 paralympics in the category totally

blind. his success is thanks to training hard with his guide. keen with whom here is a special connection from what we all want. hello, that's good, but it can be bad too. i just have to concentrate on running a 100 percent dance and focus on a subtle directions by the rope in our hands will awkward and when we both flow and we get carried away. when the results come and we run foster, my bmw dealer was diagnosed with brett and i just pigmentosa when he was 3. that meant that he was progressively losing his sight by 18. he was completely blind to the feel. it was hard to adapt since i began to lose my sight as a teenager, the about out of the for a kid that age, it's complicated because your personalities being fought off. what we won't girls to like us. we want to be perceived as normal anymore. and i was not norma because i had to grab on the shoulders of my friends on nights out in class. i used a magnifying glass to read them at nights and i looked at the clock and couldn't

see the number. oh yeah, the escamilla one thou armed our law. i am grateful that it happened like this because i have started adulthood with my blindness except to den beside me that i am living with the cards that have been dealt social media, i am blind. and luckily i have the tools and technology to see whether the thing is just nothing or look. yeah, but i will there shortly. lavish, one of those processes. it's also been tough for to rob's mother to come up with one of us together. she used to play football until at 88 or 9, his teammates told him, for better not bad because he was the goalkeeper and half of the balls went. and i did that if you know that your child has a difficulty, you try to protect him. but he never allow that. worry gera is very inscrutable and well, he denied it. nothing's wrong, right? i was invalid, that he needed to be challenged to deal with it. he needs to pursue new goals, like, let's see, how far can i go? i see though york is the most independent of my children. his next goal planning non kanyes 5200, meet his with what can you see?

there's a car for a supermarket down there. oh, i see cause i like what's in the wrong. can you see anything or not arrival in nairobi, kenya? here as in other african countries, avoidable blindness is increasing. so general meets another blind to paralympic champion who is fighting for awareness at hendrick. i imagine with you, i am a brenda. how are you? good. yeah, thank you very much. yeah, no. hm. kenya henry one yeah. okay. and jr. are invited onto a panel to discuss. awareness of flying. oh, we pay attention and all the things like this man, boy with my daughter, the same i never see the face or to body. she's in my in a lead in my head gave some would like to me, happy got bid out in the morning. prepare myself may be a few minutes before that because i take more time and then title to me is very,

very important because in this port is taught about tight, i'd not one line. and it's difficult to accept that you are different by the other . but the most important thing is, except ourself. now i'm very happy because i love myself. i accept jim, i had to go a long way before he could accept himself. first, he climbed to 3000 me to mountain, then mo, blah, now mount kenya. the 2nd highest peak him africa. ahead of him a 5 days of hiking, then 12 hours of time. his father accompanies him to pace. can we tell him to get out of just a role model and tries to improve anita challenge that he sets himself, gilbert. i think that makes people see that limitations are imposed by oneself. that's what gerald always says. i used to work with him through his it overall. i finished my trees, a really green sugar renovated from the very impressive listen to the trees are very impressive. yesterday they also saw monkeys with him or let me stop what is

today. i would not have imagined the forest trail to be beautiful, but because you on a dirt track it smells like i don't remember visually, i guess it gives you a lot easier. but since i don't see, i ask, i'm in the market, what i'm, what i feel at peace is when we go over to singing, the ground is soft, the air is spectacular. and i feel great. so and id like that will id my soon to move in on along with chicken was young bill. i don't know what they're called, but it's cool. touch it. oh wow. wow cool. it's really soft to i to house best friend fiscal is also his adventure companion or social tonight. if we sleep at 3000 meters, it will be noticeable with over $200.00. 33504008 contact will tell you

why. and there's nothing else lying around out here, right? no, not that i know this is talk out of. he didn't accept that he was really going blind . he fooled himself that he could still see it when he was walking down the street . he didn't care at all on the subway, he bumped into people on the ceiling. he was embarrassed to use the stick. you didn't like that he was going blind. imagine at that age with go to friends, feel. i mean, it's like, and it was a very hot transition. i think these challenges helped us going, climbing, encouraged us to say this is where we are. we're thankful because there's a solution to any problem. we can adapt to everything ah, and over this is good. can you see the valley? the sun is rising, man. do you notice the little light or not? a little on the horizon. today you can see the cliff we have passed, which is like a door. there's a valley between cliffs and you can see the peaks and

a few stars and the very orange light. beautiful. and i look good at i have you. i wish you could see it. i feel it, and that's very important to ah, joey procedures. can i go through places where it's hard for me to walk and he follows me in. it's like he doesn't care every step even if he bumps into the rocks . gosh, he goes forward. and that is tiger ish determination. because even if he is inspired me a since i met him, lazy dot had got us 1000000000 me, thanks me because i pushed him to do things, but he has helped me more about how to find a solution for problem. how to be practical. i've imagined being blind many times and it's not nice yet, but for him being blind is not a problem anymore. is that connection has changed my life in your life. you're michel, i use one to grab and the other one i need to ground out on the state and bridge

where the client summit team comprises jettas, cisco and legendary openness. oscar korea, one of the few people to have climbed all 18 mountains over 8000 meters. without oxygen, i got you got the sciences to caves. 100 meters are careful of the stones. rio up the river. it's passing by and it reaches a point where it becomes a waterfall. it falls a bit 30 meters right here. oh yes. yes. oh mm hm. ah, hold on tight 50 behind me are doing fine, almost a whole spectacular here. some other treat her with

a lake going on level. yeah. and they become from their yes, miss travelled the whole valley. below you can see the lake where we came from, is already far away, were left here we can see the whole savannah yellow harlow. as for alice, alanna, there's a splendor you've been a what a pity that i can't see it. when i imagine it's spectacularly went up or when by gathering many people who haven't been able to come up here for you. lucky. and you can tell them you're a good 11 is on agreement with us. little so worse condo i night, the puerto is performed local music. i believe it's orange nor to fire or yellow or wooden table, or the fire is the only thing that they can see. it's quite important in climbing to know where your body is. yeah. i think that the eyes are not important to me. climbing a lot of times, i bought them to see the rude bud. you know what the feelings are the most

important thing. this expeditions also fast for climate felix back? no, i've never climbed with a blind person on such a big mountain. it is it more? i think a mental strength then really necessarily ability because the terrain, if you don't see it as difficult to manage and if he look how he keeps on hitting a rock and twisting with the ankles, he just keeps on going. which a lot of people will just give up. i think after that happened 3 times to them like your mouth. and so i've got a white, bad altitude sickness and a lot of neck pain because there was a bad moment when i thought we'd have to turn back on the hulu. if it was raining a lot right down the imagine you can hear it from the one the was. so we don't know if we'll be able to try it or what will happen, natalie? with nazi altogether than that loss. you know, give us a, for a n time for the summit, ready to go feeling good for so despite altitude sickness and lack of sleep j as determined to reach the top of mount kenya

. whoa. did it to the right foot goes up. that's it. you have a good step there, brian: yeah, i know it's hailing and to be honest, i'm having quite a hard time on these are the moments where i prefer a warm bed without his heading off to 12 hours of climbing the summit of mount kenya is within reach, jehovah has made it with, you know, when he thought of yet the beauty of life is the, every one can be himself asked me to walk in the end. we are here to be happy and make our loved ones happy to live life, which is short enough if we don't enjoy it now i and it's over harder and there is,

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