Erik the blind guy


Apparently he already did a lot of climbing expeditions before this show, but I'm still in awe by many things he is doing at least as fine, sometimes even better than other people on this expedition without such a handicap.

We're only two episodes in and I've already seen a bunch of challenges that I thought would be insanely difficult or just batsh!t crazy to do without being able to see, like riding (rather wild) animals or the rafting. Those things are already pretty dangerous for other people, let alone for him.

So much respect to him (sorry forgot his name), what he does is quite impressive although some of it seems very irresponsible. I can only hope everything keeps going well because you can imagine the outrage at the production company should he become seriously injured on one of these challenges. I'd seriously not feel comfortable seeing him perform some of these challenges if I was there as part of the crew.

EDIT: read his name in another topic, changed topic title

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I laugh every time I see him with those sunglasses on.

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Only if they are running shoes. I remember some comedian had a joke about that.

I assumed the sunglasses were to protect from UV rays. I did wonder if he can see light or if he was completely blind.

Next I want to see a deaf person wearing ear plugs.

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Re: Next I want to see a deaf person wearing ear plugs.

wow really??????????? We do so be nice. I heard really loud music and I am deaf so I had to turn off my hearing aids to keep it low. I heard people who make fun of disabled people have no hearts. Theres always artificial heart transplants.

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Erik actually has glass eyes, so I'm not sure if he sees light and dark, but as someone else mentioned, the sand and other elements are still a reason to wear the sunglasses.

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Those are glass? Where did you hear that?

*edit* Apparently it was mentioned in his bio. Not sure how I missed that...

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It was mentioned in his bio where? I haven't seen anything that says he has glass eyes except the last couple posts in this thread

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On the shows site, here: http://abc.go.com/shows/expedition-impossible/team-no-limits

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Ah, ok. Thank you. I even looked there and missed it.

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