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Dispatches From the South Pole, Entry 9: Skiing and Sightlessness
Umph. Ugh.
Of all the noises the human body can make, few are more cringe inducing than the wet, knee slap of a human being horizontally striking blue ice as hard as it can. This time the noise comes from Alan. It’s our spring training for the trip eight months ago on a small island in Baffin Bay. Alan was standing in his boots, trying to pull his 150-pound sled into an ice flow. His eyesight prevented him from realizing he had no purchase under his feet. When he gave his hardest pull on his sled’s rope, he ended up pulling his legs out from under himself and he hit hard. I was standing six feet away and saw him lying on the ground, nursing his rib on which he landed. It was an especially cruel fall. I think the first time Alan had ever worn cross-country skis was only two days before. He had just started to feel confident on the skis, so this was a tough blow.
Alan lost his eyesight at 23 to a condition called macular degeneration. It affects more than two million Americans who are generally much older than Alan. It means the center of his eyesight has rotted away and what remains gives the illusion of looking through a fun house mirror or frosted glass. Alan can see the faint blur of the jacket in front of him, but not the definition of the snow he’s skiing on. On a flat surface he’s relatively unaffected by his condition. On rough terrain, however, he needs assistance.
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