BBC tonight: Blind climber seeing with his tongue!

Just saw this on the web and thought it worth flagging up for people who like climbing and or technological advancement. It involves a blind climber who with the help of a interface between a realtime camera attached to his belt and a stimulator on his tongue has learnt to see the world in a unique way.

Interestingly the route they are climbing is a classic route on Castleton Tower in Utah. LLion and I got thunder stormed off it a couple of years back. The whole programme is on Inside the Human Body: Building the Brain. I will have to iPlayer it, as I am heading out for a climb and a beer in the revamped Hieghts Hotel, which is under new management. Will blog on that as well later!

The programme is on BBC 1 at 9pm, the link above has a great preview of the climb.

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