At the end of July, I attended the launch event for the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics at MIT in Boston, MA and it was an outstanding celebration. The center focuses on creating advanced technologies that restore the function of bodies and minds affected by injury, aging, and disease. My friend Hugh Herr is […]
A Weihenmayer Family Tradition When I was a kid, I was lucky to go to Camp Tecumseh, an overnight sports and adventure camp for boys located on beautiful Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. My dad was a coach there, and I had such a wonderful experience as a camper that I returned to coach wrestling […]
Episode 99: Climbing Everest Blind Open Spotify Link Open Apple Podcast Link The Grit Podcast interviews persons of interest to explore ideas behind what it takes to create, scale, and lead companies to make a difference. Host Joubin Mirzadegan and I go off-script. We discuss more about my personal life and how I perceive the […]
Two months ago, my father, Ed Weihenmayer III, passed away. He’d been in terrible pain with an artificial hip that kept popping out and a back with degrading vertebrae. On top of it all, he slipped and broke his hip and was in the rehabilitation hospital awaiting revision hip surgery when his beautiful heart gave […]
After a two-year Covid delay, it was a joy to finally deliver the University of Vermont’s 2022 Commencement address in person to a sea of smiling graduates, students, family, and faculty. Video Description: A 2-min sizzle reel of my speech, featuring shots of Erik speaking on stage interlaced with shots of students entering the graduation ceremony […]
Returning to Red Rock Canyon Climbing in Nevada’s Red Rock Canyon with my friend Connor (aka: the flying squirrel) is becoming tradition. We were here in March 2021, and this time my Everest teammate Charley Mace joined us for a few days of romping on the soaring sandstone above Sin City. The Blind Approach Red […]
X Ambassadors’s Casey Harris Joins My No Barriers Podcast It was a pleasure having blind keyboardist Casey Harris of X Ambassadors join me and special guest co-host, Antoinette Lee Toscano, for an incredible No Barriers Podcast (EP 143 – links to the show are at the bottom of this post). I met Casey in […]
There’s something magical about the desert’s endless expanse of land, corridors, washes, and buttes – and something extra special about experiencing this space with other folks who also happen to be blind or visually impaired (BVI). I recently traveled to California’s infamous Death Valley to join the Blind Stokers Club for a few days of […]
The beautiful story I am sharing with you today — the Wednesday before Thanksgiving — was one of many shared with me shortly after two of our No Barriers Caregivers Retreats that took place earlier this fall at the Adaptive Outdoor Education Center in Carrabassett Valley, Maine. The retreats offered 25 family caregivers 4 days […]
Like most of us over the last two years, I took a pause on international travel–for obvious reasons. However, this September, with my son Arjun starting his freshman year of college, my team and I coming off another successful No Barriers Summit, my 53rd birthday just around the corner, and the UK opening its border […]
