After two months of oatmeal and freeze-dry, your body would rather eat itself. Expedition leader Pasquale Scaturro, who has climbed with Weihenmayer, says he has no qualms about having a blind man along for the 2001 NFB Everest expedition. Every once in a while they'll swing their arms in front of his face and try to get him to flinch. It's pretty hilarious to watch. Major league baseball can be a stressful job, so I enjoy being in the woods, in nature, even when I don't harvest an animal.
People associate guns with kids shooting up schools and that is a tragedy.
That should not reflect badly on hunting. It wasn't until I started hunting that I learned that white-tailed deer and turkeys were gone from many areas of the country, and it was hunters and their money that brought these species back. With our increasing devotion to computers and simulated life on television, and our race from the rural landscape to the cities, we are rapidly losing our connection to the land, to each other, and to an understanding of our role in nature. It is something we cannot afford to lose. It's been a big boost for us because we're getting people who have never been to Baldy before.