Without mountaineering experience, money or a team, a 46-year-old blind man decided he wanted to climb Mount Everest. People said he was crazy, but Zhang Hong wanted to prove something to himself – and his wife. To get in shape, he climbed his staircase up to the 12th floor for several hours a day with 20 to 30 kilograms of luggage and heavy mountain boots on his feet. Scaling the famous peak, while he could not see the mountain, he was able to feel the air, smell the odour of snow and hear prayer flags flapping in the wind. In one of the newest gripping narratives from us at the dpa trends & …