Sunday, June 8, 2008
Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of
gravity. It's a battle against oneself. — Walter Bonatti
Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or
sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human
spirit. — Helen Keller, the first blind and deaf person to graduate
from college (in 1904, magna cum laude)
One of my favorite writers, the late novelist Ernest Hemingway, once
said: "There are only three real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and
mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." This is partly why
I was so thrilled to recently receive an invitation from Procter &
Gamble Distributing (Philippines), Inc. president James Lafferty to
meet the world's first and still the only blind person to have climbed
Mount Everest — 40-year-old Erik Weihenmayer. He was invited to speak
at the annual meeting of 800 P&G Philippines employees at Palms
Country Club, Filinvest Corporate City, Alabang.
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