For most people, it is instinctive to be obsessed by the singular objective of standing on a summit that is guarded by treacherous obstacles. Most tales from the high Himalayas feed this singularly focused obsession for summit glory. Blindsight certainly includes this element of determined-minded Himalayan climbers aiming for a peak.
What's different is that this film brings you into the lives of children in Lhasa, Tibet (2004) who are stigmatized and cast off because they are blind. You are introduced to a remarkable (also blind) teacher from Germany who invented a braille system for their language, and introduced the children to reading and tri-lingual learning in a school she founded there. Into the stewpot of this story enters a blind alpine climber from Colorado, the only such disabled person to have stood atop Everest. And his big idea.
So you think a crack team of mountaineers has something of high value to teach a half dozen disenfranchised children from a dirt poor region of the world? Watch this movie... and find out.
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S. Hayes
Good DVD. Pretty inspiring too
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2017Verified Purchase
Mark Bennett
Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2016Verified Purchase
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Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2016Verified Purchase
Sanshira
Eine atemberaubende Expedition
Reviewed in Germany on December 23, 2010Verified Purchase
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Eine bewundernswerte Frau
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