TOUCH THE TOP OF THE WORLD

A Blind Man's Journey To Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See

My Story

By

ERIK WEIHENMAYER

 

 

Published by: the Penguin Group

Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York

10014,

U.S.A.

 

 

Copyright Erik Weihenmayer, 2001

Further reproduction or distribution in other than a specialized

format is prohibited.

 

 

Produced in Jiffy-Braille (TM)

By

National Braille Press Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

http://www.nbp.org

2001

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Title

 

From the Book Jacket

 

Contents

 

Acknowledgments

 

INTRODUCTION: McKinley's Kahiltna Glacier

 

1. Quasimodo

 

2. A World In-Between

 

3. Helplessness

 

4. Faint Recognition

 

5. Blind Warriors

 

6. Wizard, the Chick Magnet

 

7. Flailing to Independence

 

8. Perceptions

 

9. Thirty Sets of Eyes

 

10. Blind Faith

 

11. Preparation

 

12. Zero Zero

 

13. "Big" Changes

 

14. Uhuru

 

15. Moving Through Darkness

 

16. The Nose

 

17. The Slag Heap

 

18. I Did Not Die

 

19. The Song of the Sirens

 

Epilogue

 

Special Thanks For Emma

 

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