snow blindness
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Origin of snow blindness
First recorded in 1740–50
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His travels include encounters with Inuit people, snow blindness and a stinging need for solitude that leads him to abandon his family for a life in the Arctic trading post.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
Haidri said a Pakistani mountaineer, Asif Bhatti, was stranded on Nanga Parbat because of snow blindness, and efforts were underway to rescue him.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 4, 2023
Everyone who visits must undergo safety training to learn about dangers such as frostbite, hypothermia and snow blindness.
From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2019
He wore dark glasses because he suffered snow blindness as a young man in Siberia, where his family was exiled by the Soviets.
From Reuters • May 29, 2014
Yet in 1924 a member of the third British expedition, Edward Felix Norton, reached an elevation of 28,126 feet—just 900 feet below the summit—before being defeated by exhaustion and snow blindness.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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