Frontispiece: Everest Documentary Premiere

Frontispiece: Everest Documentary Premiere

The Braille Monitor

July 2003

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John

Brennan, the NFB staff member with primary responsibility for this memorable

evening, introduces Maurice Peret to the audience. Maurice was the Federationist

who climbed to the Everest base camp with the team to assist with communications

during the weeks they were on the mountain.

Everest

team leader Pasquale Scaturro presents Dr. Maurer with the actual permit issued

by the Nepal authorities to the NFB 2001 Everest Expedition.

The

evening of May 22 the IMAX theater at the Maryland Science Center was the scene

of a sell-out viewing of Farther Than the Eye Can See, the documentary

film telling the story of the NFB 2001 Everest Expedition, in which Erik Weihenmayer

became the first blind person to summit Mt. Everest. Blind and sighted, very

young and fairly old, people from across the community clearly enjoyed the film

of this heart-stopping adventure.

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