What’s become of Tendsin, Gyendsen, Tashi and the other blind children from Lhasa?
Sabriye Tenberken continues telling the moving story of her life – and reports on a dramatic climbing expedition in the Himalayas, the foundation of a new centre for the blind in India and other adventures. The blind mountaineer Eric Weihenmeyer from the USA is convinced he can help the children of Lhasa in developing confidence in themselves and their abilities: he wants to climb a mountain with them in the Himalayas. Sabriye Tenberken reluctantly agrees. She believes the children from the Centre for the Blind in Lhasa climbed their own mountain a long time ago. But the »Climbing Blind« Mission goes ahead. In autumn 2004, six blind children, Sabriye, Paul Kronenberg and Eric Weihenmeyer set out with a camera team to climb Lhakpa Ri, a neighbour of Mount Everest. But after admiring a fairytale ice palace at an altitude of 6,500 metres, the weather suddenly changes. Paul and other members of the daring expedition suffer from altitude sickness and have to turn back. Sabriye and the children stay behind in icy temperatures for several days while a snowstorm sweeps across the Everest Advanced Camp.
»Aside from the testimony to courage that it provides, it is the very simplicity of the telling and the unforced modesty of its author that constitute the strength of this book. The result is truly inspirational.« (New Books in German, Issue 20)
