Acting
Erik Weihenmayer
Acting · Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Erik Weihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) is an American athlete, adventurer, author, activist and motivational speaker. He was the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001. Due to this accomplishment he was featured on the cover of Time magazine. He completed the Seven Summits in September 2002, one of only 150 mountaineers at the time to do so, but the only blind climber to achieve this feat. In 2008, he also added the Carstensz Pyramid thus completing the Eight Summits. Weihenmayer has also made noteworthy climbs up the Nose of El Capitan in Yosemite in 1996, and ascended Losar, a 2,700-foot (820 m) vertical ice face in the Himalayas in 2008.
Credits · 9
FilmSoundscape
2023 · Self
Welcome to Earth
2021 · Self - Mountaineer
FilmFine Lines
2019 · Self
FilmThe Weight of Water
2018 · Himself
FilmBear Grylls: Man vs Everest
2014 · Self
FilmBlindsight
2006 · Self
FilmTouch the Top of the World
2006 · Story
FilmFarther Than the Eye Can See
2003 · Self
FilmMasters of Stone V
2000 · Self