A blind Mountain View woman is training to be part of a group that will hike to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.

"You know, a lot of people think that when you hike a mountain, you do it so you can get the view at the summit. Obviously, for someone like me, when we hike up Mount Kilimanjaro, I'm not going to be able to see the view at the very top," Kristie Colton said. "But there is so much more that can be taken away from this journey."

Colton is blind because of a condition that she has lived with since she was 9, called Stargardt disease. It's a form of macular degeneration that affects central vision.

"So, if I hold my finger out here, I can see it because it's within my peripheral vision. But then as it comes in towards the center, my finger essentially disappears," Colton said.

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