ERIK WEIHENMAYER, ROCK CLIMBER: When people say they summit for the view, I think they`re missing a lot of the equation of why we do the things we do. The summit honestly is pretty anticlimactic 虎头蛇尾的 . The movement is for me the most exciting part. My name is Erik Weihenmayer and I`m the first blind person to have climbed the tallest peak in every continent. When I was 4 or 5 years old, I was diagnosed with this incredibly rare disease called retinoschisis 视网膜分层剥离 . It attacked my retinas and essentially unravel 解开 ; 拆散 them. When I finally went blind, it was a 1__ 2 _____like the worst thing had happened, so there`s nothing else to lose. There was a recreational group taking blind kids rock climbing and that was it for me. It was sort of the 3___ ___ ___ adventure, all the things I thought I wouldn`t have as a blind person.