Showing posts with label blind hikers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blind hikers. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2011

“Sightless Suit”

http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2011/04/blind-federation-sues-las-vegas-airport/150330/1

The National Federation for the Blind is suing Las Vegas’s McCarran Airport for failing to make its self-serve kiosks operable by the visually impaired. Blind people trying to use them had been putting in quarters and wondering why they never won.

The airport intends to claim that they, too, are visually impaired, because they never saw this coming.

It may be hard to get thee courts to be impartial in the case, since Justice is also blind.

Friday, October 15, 2010

“Grand Climb” or “What You Can’t See Can Hurt You”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-10-14-blind-hikers-grand-canyon_N.htm

Over a 17-hour step-by-step trek, a group of 13 blind hikers were successfully guided along 23 miles of a rocky trail from the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the summit of the South Rim. Or so they were told. (Wink.)

They used guides because the seeing eye dogs took one look down and said "no way."