2005 Newsletters
Everest Documentary Named Among 20 Best Adventure DVDs Of All Time
Nov 2nd, 2005
Watch NBC's Three Wishes this Friday at 9:00 p.m. Eastern (8 pm Central and Mountain, 9 pm Pacific - please check your listings) as Erik helps fulfill a blind woman's dream. This new series has captured the attention and hearts of television viewers nationwide. Producers of this program travel to various small towns throughout America and grant "Three Wishes" in that community. One episode of the program was filmed in Cedar City, Utah where a man wished that his wife, blinded from a rare brain disease, could become more independent and the two could live the active lifestyle which they enjoyed before her vision loss. Being guided up a steep rock face by another blind person probably wasn't what she was expecting! Tune in for the rest of the story. Erik will speak to the Princeton University community on Wednesday evening, November 16 at 8:00 p.m. at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, in connection with the Princeton Varsity Club speaker series which honors former Princeton football coach Jake McCandless. McCandless coached the 1969 Tigers to the Ivy League championship. Erik's dad played for McCandless several years earlier. This event is open to the public. Over lunch that day, Erik will exchange thoughts with Princeton coaches and with faculty who are involved in the student-athlete interface Thousands of Boston public school students filed into the Wang Center last Wednesday excited to meet Erik and hear his message. Classes were reading Erik's "Touch the Top of the World"; and Jeff Evan's visit to their schools a few days earlier had personalized the story and built anticipation. A teacher told me this was a unique experience for students to actually meet an author and the central figure of a book. The introductions of each school prompted loud cheers, but the crowd quieted immediately when Erik began speaking; they were hanging on every word. Our intent is to encourage students in the formative years of their lives to think about their dreams, and about how they might choose to impact on their world. We are looking to organize similar programs - one each year - around the country. Please contact Ed Weihenmayer with any ideas. For those in the Boston area, Erik will appear on Sundays with Liz Walker show on Sunday, November 13 at 11:00 a.m. Liz is a prominent news anchor and reporter for CBS-4. We thank Lumber Liquidators for bringing Erik to Boston, Verizon for providing the books, GE and The Education Resources Institute for sponsoring specific schools; and Lesley University, National Braille Press, World T.E.A.M. Sports, and Perkins School for the Blind for organizing the program in Boston. * Sabriye appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show two weeks ago: "Eight Women Oprah Wants You To Know." Sabriye spoke about how she started the school for the blind in Lhasa, Tibet, from which came the six blind Tibetan teenagers who last Fall stood together with Erik and Sabriye on the northside of Everest at 21,000 feet. Sabriye's forcefulness, passion for her cause, and the clarity of her remarks simply blew the other "stars" away. A feature story on Sabriye appeared in the August issue of Oprah Magazine. Find it; you'll love it! For information about other showings of Farther Than the Eye Can See, log on towww.kbdi.org.NBC's Three Wishes -- Friday Evening, November 4
Erik Speaks at Princeton
Boston Students Pack the Wang Center in Boston
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