2021-04-09 16:35:52 GMT2021-04-10 00:35:52(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
KATHMANDU, April 9 (Xinhua) Zhang Hong, a 46-year-old visually impaired Chinese climber is attempting to summit Mt. Qomolangma this spring, a company organizing his expedition said. If he manages to reach the top of Mt. Qomolangma, he will be the first Asian blind person to scale the world s tallest peak, Dawa Steven Sherpa, chief executive officer of Asian Trekking, one of the leading expedition organizing companies in Nepal, told Xinhua on Friday.
Earlier, two mountaineers Erik Weihenmayer, an American mountaineer and Andy Holzer, an Austrian climber, both visually impaired, had reached the top of the Mt. Qomolangma in May 2001 and May 2017 respectively.
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