No Barriers

Description

McKinley's Kahiltna Glacier -- Quasimodo -- World in-between -- Helplessness -- Faint recognition -- Blind warriors -- Wizard, the chick magnet -- Flailing to independence -- Perceptions -- Thirty sets of eyes -- Blind faith -- Preparation -- Zero zero -- "big" changes -- Uhuru -- Moving through darkness -- Nose -- Slag heap -- I did not die -- Song of the sirens.;[The author] was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But [he] was determined to rise above this disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this [memoir], he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual impairment - and by a seeing world. He speaks movingly of the role his family played in his battle to break through the barriers of blindness: the mother who prayed for the miracle that would restore her son's sight; the father who encouraged him to strive for that unreachable mountaintop. And he tells the story of his dream to climb the world's highest peaks and how he is turning that dream into astonishing reality. - Back cover.