When You Close Your Eyes
/How a blind explorer experiences adventure with his other four senses
Explorer Christopher Venter doesn’t let lack of eyesight stop him from chasing his wanderlust (Photo courtesy Aaron Millar)
“Sometimes you only see things really clearly when you close your eyes.”
— Christopher Venter
Explorer Christopher Venter lost his eyesight very suddenly, at age 40.
He was an avid traveler, and at first, he couldn’t imagine going on with life, if he couldn’t see. But eventually, he regained the will to live and the courage to explore the world.
On this episode, he takes us on a journey from Sicily to Southern France and show us the world as he experiences it — with his other four senses.
The story comes to us from the Armchair Explorer Podcast, a show on which the world’s greatest adventurers tell their best stories from the road. At the end of the episode, we talk with Armchair Explorer host Aaron Millar about his show, and his desire to cure our “wonder deficit,” one story at a time.
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