Scott Lehmann and Shayna Unger became the first Deaf Americans to summit Mount Everest. Unger is the first Deaf woman to ever complete the climb.
— How do you sign if you’re holding an ice ax? Do guides refuse to work with you if you can’t hear? What happens if you can’t see each other signing at night?
The World Federation of the Deaf estimates that there are 70 million Deaf people in the world, using more than 300 different signed languages.Deaf climbers on the rise He was one of a coalition of disabled Nepalis who fought the ban in Nepal’s Supreme Court, and in 2018 it was repealed. He fell in love with climbing, but was frustrated by the lack of resources available in his native ASL.
Unger and Lehmann decided to assume no technology would work for them on Everest and set out to learn to communicate as much as possible without it. Though they didn’t have a signed language in common, the trio became friends – communicating via a mix of ASL, International Sign Language, and gestures.
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