Jesse Dufton is a British mountaineer, paraclimber and member of the Great Britain paraclimbing team since 2017.
[1] In 2019, Dufton became the first blind climber to lead an ascent on Old Man of Hoy in the Orkney Islands.
[2] The climb, and Dufton's story, were the subject of the 2020 film Climbing Blind.
[3][4] Dufton has rod-cone dystrophy; he was born with 20% central vision which has deteriorated to 1% today.
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