Following in the footsteps of the 2014 Warriors to Summits team, Sam Baron, a 14-year-old Californian, this summer completed a summit of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States. The hike was not only a way for Sam to honor that year’s team of disabled veterans but to raise money to help No Barriers fund similar expeditions for disabled veterans. Sam and father, David, summited the peak – at 14,505 feet — after about 9 hours of hiking. In total, the duo hiked about 23 miles up more than 6,500 feet of elevation…
Bill Barkeley is a deaf-blind adventurer from Michigan and a No Barriers Board Member. He recently accompanied a dozen deaf teenagers from around the nation on No Barriers Youth’s Leading the Way expedition. Barkeley shared this powerful observation on how those teenagers shifted their perspectives and started to think about the importance of a No Barriers Life Element — Elevate. The next generation of leaders went through a transformation right before my eyes in the course of the expedition to Peru. How so? They came into the Machu…
Bobby's No Barriers Youth trip through the Grand Canyon last summer helped him discover his purpose in life.