Erik Weihenmayer References Erik Weihenmayer American mountaineer Ask Anything Homework Help Written by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them. The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica Britannica AI Ask Anything Learn about this topic in these articles: Mount Everest/ Extraordinary feats…the first blind person, American Erik Weihenmayer, summited Everest; he was an experienced climber who had already scaled peaks such as Mount McKinley (Denali) in Alaska and Kilimanjaro in eastern Africa before his climb of Everest. Read More…the first blind person, American Erik Weihenmayer, summited Everest; he was an experienced climber who had already scaled peaks such as Mount McKinley (Denali) in Alaska and Kilimanjaro in eastern Africa before his climb of Everest. Read More