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Erik Weihenmayer
Actor, Additional Credits
Born September 23, 1968 (56 years)
Erik Weihenmayer is an American athlete, adventurer, author, activist and motivational speaker, and the first person without eyes to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001 For this feat, he was honored with a Time Magazine cover story. He also completed the Seven Summits in September 2002, joining 150 mountaineers at the time who had accomplished that feat, but as the only climber who was blind. In 2008, he also added Carstensz Pyramid in West Papua New Guinea, the tallest peak in Australasia, thus completing the more respected Seventh Summit. Weihenmayer has also made noteworthy climbs up the Nose of El Capitan in Yosemite in 1996, and ascended Losar, a 2700-foot vertical ice face in the Himalayas in 2008.
Filmography
| 2021 | Welcome to Earth (TV Series) · as Self - Mountaineer |
| 2019 | Fine Lines · as Self |
| 2018 | The Weight of Water · as Himself |
| 2018 | To Dine For with Kate Sullivan (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2012 | High Ground · as Self |
| 2012 | Home & Family (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | Expedition Impossible (TV Series) · as Self - No Limits |
| 2006 | Blindsight · as Self |
| 1995 | Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (TV Series) · as Self - Adventurer (segment "erik Weihenmayer") |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |