American adventurers Scott Lehmann and Shayna Unger have become only the third and fourth deaf people to summit Mount Everest
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? Those are just some of the issues that American adventurers Scott Lehmann and Shayna Unger have addressed on their YouTube channel, which documents their experiences as a Deaf couple working their way to the peaks of the world’s tallest mountains.
Even something as simple as typing is challenging at 25,000 feet – they would have to remove their gloves in order to use the touchscreen, which can be risky in such cold temperatures. 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. Before the climb, they worked with their Sherpas in advance to learn some basic ASL and agree on visual cues and signals that they could all use.
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