"Silent Climb"

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An approximately 28 minute video for broadcast on Kaleidoscope, America's Disability Channel. (This Network goes into 15 million TV households.)
Purpose: To create more understanding between the Deaf culture and hearing people.

"Coping with another person's deafness is an excellent litmus test of a hearing person's character." David Wright - British poet in his autobiography "Deafness"

• There are 24,000,000 hearing impaired and deaf people in the United States. Two million of these are totally deaf.

  "Deaf minds develop visual skills and visual thinking beyond the usual capacity of a hearing mind. Visual thinkers collectively create an amazingly rich visual culture, which is reflected most of all in their signed languages." From "A Man without Words" by Susan Schaller

  "We can do everything they can - except hear." Ron Peck - A freshman football player at Gallaudet University before running 190 yards in a 47-7 victory over Brooklyn College.

  Upon realizing everyone was not deaf, Henry Kisor thought, "deafness was a minor, if interesting, human characteristic, like freckles, blond hair, double-jointedness, or the ability to teeter along the top of a board fence." Henry Kisor -- Book editor & columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.

  
  

  Synopsis of Silent Climb

  Silent Climb is the story of two bright college students who are deaf; one is a computer wizard and the other is graduating a semester early to go on an adventure. These two students dispel the notion of "deaf & dumb" . Ramiro signs up with Reachout Expeditions to go on an ice climbing trip in Colorado. This is the story of overcoming not only communication barriers but one of achieving a difficult goal through teamwork and perseverance. Silent Climb presents positive role models for all handicapped individuals and inspires everyone to reach for their full potential.

  Credits
  
  Cameramen - Dan Cress, Dave Thomas, Jim Keen
  Still Photography - Briana Ross
  Editors - Paul Murphy & Issie Jimenez 
  Graphics - Post Office Productions & Pixel Factory
  Audio - Post Production Bob Gussin - Pan Studio
  Music - Jeff Nicholson & Joe Hess
  Writer - Jim Keen
  Producer/Director - Jim Keen
  
  Sponsored in part by Motorola
  
  Product & logistic support from the following: 
  Apple Computer, Dexter Outdoor Corporation, Maxit, Montbell,
  Moonstone Mountaineering, Mountain Chalet, Osprey Packs,
  Pigeon Mountain Industries, Reachout Expeditions, Saturn 
  of Colorado Springs, and The Colorado School for the Deaf & the Blind.