The media kit for BLINDSIGHT says this is "the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest", yet upon seeing the whole documentary, the story is a bit more complicated. This is really the story of how through 6 blind Tibetan teenagers and their teacher Sabriye Tenberken, blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer learned the real meaning of success by understanding victory as a process led by compassion.

In Tibet the blind are treated like outcasts, as people who must have been punish by demons for grievances from past lives. Many blind children are abandoned and there's no support system --cultural or social-- for the blind later in their lives.

Sabriye Tenberken founded Braille Without Borders with a simple mission : To have the right to be blind without disability. As a scholar of Tibetan culture and a blind woman herself, she discovered the wretchedness in which a lot of blind children live in Tibet.

The movie was a product of her reaching out to Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind mountain climber to reach the zenith of Mount Everest. For her, it was simple : If he could do it, wouldn't it be amazing to give the teenagers in her care a similar experience, so it could be one more stepping stone in their own personal journeys into living a life fully and not handicapped by their disability?

Lucy Walker unsentimental style not only captures the success of Tenderken's mission, but it also augmented the unexpected epiphany that it brought to Weihenmayer at the end.

You can catch BLINDSIGHT at the Independent Film Center here in New York City.