What if suddenly everyone you knew were a stranger?
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest. The dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge - made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind.
Believed by many Tibetans to be possessed by demons, the children are shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by society. Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken, a blind educator and adventurer who established the first and only school for the blind in Tibet, the students invite the famous blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer to visit their school after learning about his conquest of Everest. Erik arrives in Lhasa and inspires Sabriye and her students Kyila, Sonam Bhumtso, Tashi, Gyenshen, Dachung and Tenzin to let him lead them higher than they have ever been before. The resulting 3-week journey is beyond anything any of them could have predicted.
Special Agent Matti
You don't have to be crazy to take blind teenagers on a trek up a mountain but it helps.
This documentary follows a bunch of underprepared blind and sighted adults as they take underprepared blind teenagers up the Himalayas. The predictable tears before bedtime come thick and fast (that makes it more interesting to watch) but this film/event would never have happened in the USA for fear of a lawsuit.
The documentary, extreme sport movie Blindsight is directed by Lucy Walker and stars Gavin Attwood, Sally Berg, Sonam Bhumtso.
PG (Mild themes)
107 minutes (1:47 hours)
Film: 7 February 2008
