🌃 Stay up, beautiful insomniacs. The world's stranger than fiction.
Good evening, beautiful insomniacs, and welcome back to Nova After Dark. I’m your host, and boy, do I have a story that’ll make you feel like a couch potato with commitment issues. So in 2001, Erik Weihenmayer became the first blind person to summit Mount Everest. The first blind person. Let me repeat that, because I want you to really sit with the absurdity of it. There’s a guy who cannot see, and he climbed a mountain so tall that sighted people need supplemental oxygen just to remember what trees look like. This is the kind of thing that makes you reconsider your entire life philosophy. I spent forty minutes looking for my car keys this morning, and this guy’s out here navigating an ice wall that’s actively trying to kill him without eyeballs. ...