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Teen with Down syndrome becomes first ever to reach Mt. Everest base camp
Eli Reimer, a 16-year-old from Bend, Ore., hiked 70 miles to Everests South Base Camp in Nepal with a team of eight other people, including his father, Justin Reimer. The trek was meant to help promote the work of the Elisha Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps to raise money and suppo
Date: Apr 01, 2013
Category: Health
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'An amazing moment': 15-year-old Oregon boy with Down syndrome scales ...
For anybody who has a child with a disability or who is impacted in some way ... the disability is not a limitation, said Justin Reimer, adding that Elis life and the lives of those with disabilities have infinite worth.
Date: Mar 31, 2013
Category: Health
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15-Year-Old Freshman with Down Syndrome Makes Successful Climb up Mount ...
ompassion in communities where children with special needs are marginalized, as the NBC News Bay Area reports. The organization also raises money and awareness for orphans with disabilities. Indeed, Justin Reimer does not refer to his son's Down's Syndrome as a disability, but rather as his "uniqueness".
Eli and his father, Justin Reimer, made the trip as part of a mission to raise money and awareness for disabled children. The teen trained for a year to complete the two-week 70-mile hike to an altitude of 17,600 feet.
"We're able to celebrate that as we departed Katmandu with him just completing something that as far as we know, no other teen with Down syndrome has done, so it's monumental," said Justin Reimer, teen's Father.