Blindsight

Name: Blindsight
Genre: Documentary

United Kingdom · 2006
Rated PG · 1h 44m
Director Lucy Walker
Starring Gavin Attwood, Sally Berg, Sonam Bhumtso, Dachung
Genre Documentary

"Blindsight" follows six Tibetan teenagers as they attempt to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri mountain in the shadow of Mount Everest - a challenge in its own right, but made all the more impressive by the fact that they are all blind. Undeterred by the scorn they receive from their village community, they enlist the help of a blind German social worker who established the first school for the vision impaired in Lhasa, as well as the famous blind seven-summit mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer.

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Village Voice by

Blindsight works best when it casts off the constraints of the adventure tale it wasn't meant to be and settles into a deft and humanistic treatment of blindness in Tibet.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Bill White

A moving and touching documentary.

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

Spiritually aware documentary.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

Featuring exceptional people doing extraordinary things, Blindsight is one of those documentaries with the power to make you re-examine your entire life -- or at least get off the couch.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Raises important questions that resonate far beyond the subject at hand: What is the meaning of accomplishment, and how do you define triumph?

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lucy Walker's observant film Blindsight is about profound East-West differences in the importance of journey versus destination and comradeship versus competition.