Blind Faith on Everest • followHIM Favorites • June 15-21 • Come, Follow Me
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Hank Smith & John Bytheway
4.9 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. |
| 0:04.4 | John and I share a single story to go with each week's Come Follow Me lesson. |
| 0:08.1 | Are you ready for a modern David and Goliath story, John? |
| 0:11.9 | Oh, I'm braced. |
| 0:13.5 | Go. |
| 0:13.7 | You are going to love this. |
| 0:15.7 | Eric Wyenmayer. |
| 0:17.4 | That's just a great last name. |
| 0:18.6 | When he was in elementary school, found out that he had a |
| 0:22.7 | degenerative eye disease. And sadly, tragically, he is going to be blind in the next few years. |
| 0:30.3 | Sure enough, by the time he entered high school, he was completely blind. But he had worked really hard. |
| 0:36.7 | His mother had helped him. He was able to stay in a |
| 0:39.4 | mainstream school, was able to continue his life because they had worked hard practicing for this. |
| 0:45.5 | He didn't love that, by the way. He didn't love practicing to be blind, but his mom was really |
| 0:50.8 | set that he could fight through this and keep going and have a wonderful, successful life. |
| 0:56.3 | Sadly, John, even more tragically, after he goes blind, his mother is killed in an accident. |
| 1:03.1 | He has had some really, really hard times. |
| 1:06.6 | A few months after that, he was reading a newsletter in Braille about a group of blind students |
| 1:13.4 | who were going to begin to rock climb, kind of an intro to rock climbing class. |
| 1:18.8 | He said, this sounds insane. |
| 1:20.7 | Who would be dumb enough to take blind kids rock climbing? |
| 1:25.0 | So he signed up. |
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