Blindsight

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas,Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers on their journey to climb a mountain in theshadow of Mt Everest. A dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge made all the more remarkableby the fact that the teenagers are blind. Believed to be possessed by evil demons, the children are feared by theirparents, scorned by their villages and rejected by their Buddhist religion. Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken, a blindeducator and adventuress who established the first school for the blind in Lhasa, the students invite the famousblind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer to visit their school after learning about his conquest of Everest. Erikarrives in Lhasa and inspires Sabriye and her students to let him lead them higher than they have ever been before.The result is nothing anyone could have predicted.