This amazing documentary was set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, and the equally breathtaking adventure that six blind Tibetan teenagers undertook; to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri which is on the north side of Everest.

It was a story of achieving the seemingly impossible against all the odds, and the film was made especially poignant when we learned that in Tibet, blind people are considered to be possessed by demons or to have been sinners in a previous life. Therefore, the children featured had been through all kinds of torment with many having been shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by Tibetan society in general.

Their lives were dark in every sense until Sabriye Tenberken – pictured above in the orange jacket – a blind educator and adventurer established the first school for the blind in Lhasa and effectively rescued these children… Read more & comment »