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Interview with Erik Weihenmayer
Blind Climber Completes Seven Summits, Plans on Eighth
October 2, 2002
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Erik Weihenmayer

MountainZone.com:
We're going to move to the next question now, Erik, and this comes from a reader in Oregon who wants to know, will you be putting together a new book on your exploits of all the seven summits?

Weihenmayer:
Yeah, I actually will. I've been asked to do a Seven Summits picture book, with some text involved as well, sort of a motivational book but also with some really beautiful pictures, and that should be a nice complement to Touch The Top Of The World, which I wrote a couple of years ago. So, yeah, lots more books to come. I like writing, although it's sometimes way more challenging than climbing.

MountainZone.com:
Yeah, it's tough work, isn't it? I've got a late edition of your last book, Touch The Top, which includes your Everest climb.

Weihenmayer:
Right. Yeah, the publisher asked me to write, you know, after Everest happened and I had this book out that I really thought was complete, they said "Well, people are going to kill you now if they get this book called Touch The Top Of The World and Everest isn't included," so I wrote another chapter and added it to the end of the paperback which is out now. And I think people see that as maybe my most prominent, or biggest, climb.

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