Проектная работа по английскому языку по теме: " The famous and successful people"

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When he was young, Eric has focused on only one sport - wrestling - and he achieved excellent results. He represented his state in the national championship in wrestling USA. He graduated from college with a master's degree and soon became a schoolteacher. Then he started climbing and hiking.

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He also completed the Seven Summits in September 2002, joining 150 mountaineers at the time who had accomplished that feat, but the only climber who was blind. Erik Weihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) is the only blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001. He was honored with a Time Magazine cover story.

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In 2008 he also added Carstenz Pyramid in West Papua New Guinea, the tallest peak in Austral Asia, thus completing the more respected Seventh Summit. Weihenmayer has also made noteworthy climbs up the Nose of El Capitan in Yosemite in 1996, and ascended Losar, a 2700-foot vertical ice face in the Himalayas which he ascended in two days, in 2008.

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He is the author of Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See, his memoir; and The Adversity Advantage, Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness.

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Eric Veyhenmayer - actor and screenwriter. Eric Veyhenmayer starred in seven films as himself.

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