Isa ka visually-impaired Chinese mountaineer ang nakalab-ot sa summit sang pinakamataas nga bukid sa bilog nga kalibutan.
Si Zhang Hong, 46 anyos, ang nahauna nga bulag gikan sa Asia kag ikatatlo nga visually impaired person sa bilog nga kalibutan nga nagsaka sa Mount Everest.
“No matter if you’re disabled or normal, whether you have lost your eyesight or you have no legs or hands, it doesn’t matter as long as you have a strong mind, you can always complete a thing that other people say you can’t,” suno kay Zhang.
Nakumpleto ni Zhang ang 8,849 metre-high Himalayan feat sadtong Mayo 24 kaupod ang tatlo ka high altitude guides kag nakabalik sa base camp sadtong Huwebes.
Ginbun-ag si Zhang sa southwestern Chinese city sang Chongqing, kag nadula ang iya panulukan sang edad 21 bangud sa glaucoma.Na-inspire siya ni Erik Weihenmayer, isa man ka bulag nga American mountaineer nga nagsaka sa Everest sadtong 2001.
“I was still very scared, because I couldn’t see where I was walking, and I couldn’t find my centre of gravity, so sometimes I would fall,” suno kay Zhang.
“But I kept thinking because even though it was hard, I had to face those difficulties, this is one component of climbing, there are difficulties and dangers and this is the meaning of climbing.”
