this week s fit nation looks at a blind rock climber. cnn s sanjay gupta has the story. i got to interrupt on a rock the way very few people get to experience. climbing has taught me to navigate the world in a different way. justin solis is a professional rock climber, he s also legally blind. being a young teen boy and losing your vision is one of the hardest things i could have imagined. i was about to get my learner s permit. reporter: despite years of tests, doctors couldn t determine the cause of his vision loss. i spent two or three years not doing anything at all. until a friend at a local gym told me i didn t need to see to rock climb and i was hooked. reporter: justin can t see straight ahead. he relies mainly on his
risks can be seen as child abuse through his eyes. skateboarding, when i was a kid skateboarding, i never wore a helmet. your kid likes to rock climb, that is a risk. cheerleading, drinking with uncle greg is a risk but cheerleading has a lot of injuries. what i think the bigger potential or psychological harm is treating your children as signals in gender issues. children can no longer go through phases, they are one gender trapped in another and then they changed their mind. l i think we are in danger of dealing with inflicting psychological damage than actual physical damage through roughhousing. marie: we all have to acknowledge their problems in football, and contact sports in general. hockey, lacrosse. you have to be careful with younger children. you have a 10-year-old son, does he play football? would you let him play football?
parallel to the ground but has really large holes. the rock is like this and you re on the underside? yes. how are you not falling through? you re on a rope. i fall all the time. that s also what s nice. when you fall, you fall in the air. if you re face climbing, you fall down into the rock. you can really push yourself. i don t like any of that. guess what i m going to do? yep. rock climb. why? because i m a host of a tv show and that s what a tv host does. you have a scene someone mentions something you don t like, then the producer tells you you can do it so you can overcome your life-long fear on live tv for the world to ridicule and watch. helping me out with that is craig bentley at beautiful red river gorge. how long has rock climbing been part of the tourism here? anecdotal evidence of late 60s. and maybe earlier than that. you mean the skull of people who climbed and didn t make it? random bodies in caves. over the past 15 years it s blown out.
you re on the underside? yes. how are you not falling through? you re on a rope. i fall all the time. that s also what s nice. when you fall, you fall in the air. if you re face climbing, you fall down into the rock. can you push yourself. i don t like any of that. guess what i m going to do? yep, rock climb. why? because i m a host of a tv show and that s what a tv host does. you have a scene someone mentions you don t like, a producer tells you you can do it so you can overcome a life-long fear on live tv for the world to ridicule and watch. helping me out with that is craig bentley ateautiful red river gorge. how long has rock climbing been part of the tourism people that climbed it and didn t make it. blown out, a lot of traffic here. along the proliferation of
it s a well-known destination. it s really steep so you can climb on rocks that parallels to the ground. you mean the rocks like this and you re on the other side? yeah. how are you not falling through this? i have ropes. i falling you oh. guess what i m going to do, yep, rock climb. why? becauseheim because i m a host of the t.v. show and that s what the t.v. show does. you have a scene somebody mentions something you don t like and the producer tell you to do it. watch, it s craig bentley at beautiful red river gorge. how long has rock climbing been popular here?