Adventurer sees what’s possible

Tim Conners of Fulton, third from left, with his companions at the peak of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, as shown on this photo from his Facebook page. The team reached the summit in early June.
Conners was a freshman in high school when he was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He lost his vision when the cancer spread to his optic nerve. Chemotherapy helped shrink a tumor in his chest that was the size of a football. He also required a bone marrow transplant and dialysis for kidney failure. He was hospitalized for more than 100 days, much of that time at Upstate Golisano Children‘s Hospital, which, he says, “is the reason I am still alive today.”

Conners, as shown on the cover of his book, "It's Impossible Until You Do It: Succeeding in the Face of Adversity." (PHOTOS COURTESY OF TIM CONNERS)
One of Conner‘s inspirations is American athlete Erik Weihenmayer, the only blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The Make-a-Wish Foundation helped Conners meet Weihenmayer.
Conners has a goal of giving back to the children‘s hospital and other organizations that helped him. He is raising money to donate through speaking engagements and sales of his book, “It‘s Impossible Until You Do It: Succeeding in the Face of Adversity.”
