Are they two or one? She can not walk, he can not see but they managed to climb to over 4400 meters altitude.

Trevor Hahn, an American artist who grew up doing hiking and climbing into his native Colorado he lost his sight because of the glaucoma it's been five years. He managed to reach the summit of Gokyo Ri (summit culminating at 5,357 meters in the Khumbu region, in the Himalayas in Nepal) with the help of trekking poles and a team of players a bell and gave voice instructions to guide. In this feat, he managed to avoid altitude sickness and overcome many pitfalls that other members of his team also encountered, typical of mountaineering, but he still worried about not being able to give the maximum of his abilities in this ascent.

I've always thought that I could be someone's legs if others could be my eyes

What he did not know then was the answer to what he needed to feel full athlete I was about to arrive. This happened on a Saturday last fall, in the middle of a meeting with friends that he had organized with his wife Mandy. He commented with confidence on the group's frustration at not being able to fade into the sport as he knew it. Among the guests was Melanie Knecht, music therapist 29 years old, born with spina bifida, a neural defect, through which he spends his life in a wheelchair. Hahn and she had met a few months ago in a boxing clinic for people with disabilities in Fort Collins.

Like her friend, Melanie grew up camping and enjoying outdoor adventures. In 2012, he went on Easter Island, on the Chilean coast, with a partner. He knew that there was no way around the statues of Moai in his wheelchair, so he convinced him to take him. in one of those backpacks that parents use to carry young children. Together, they understood, although the experience was not 100% successful because they both felt a little uncomfortable: it was because of the extra weight and she was because of the reduced size of the device. It was then that he realized that adjustment A little detail, the idea could still walk.

It would be to find the indicated partner, maybe a younger boy able to support his weight, and a designed backpack as you go For a woman's body. So when he heard Hahn talking about his trip to Nepal, he quickly realized that he was the kind of partner that she had sought and proposed immediately. Also instantly he accepted.

"I've always thought that I could be someone's legs if others could be my eyes," he replied. They left for design your adventure together and the first thing that they had was that Freeloader, a portable equipment company will give a larger and much more comfortable backpack than the first used by Melanie. Then they announced publicly Your challenge: climb at least one of 427 meters from Colorado in August, perhaps even Mount Elbert, which rises to 4,400 meters.

"For us, uniting to do that seemed logical," Knecht told the publication specializing in extreme sports. On the outside "If two people who have a crazy idea meet, it's no longer crazy." It's just an idea".