"Come and experience our world... you can overcome all limitations." That's the message blind climbers — Prasad Gurav, 45, and Divyanshu Ganatra, 41 — sent out after they became India's first blind climbers to scale the 16,100-feet Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa on September 13. Israel's blind climber Uri Basha and 10 sighted climbers also achieved the feat with expedition leader Anusha Subramanian. Gurav is an IT engineer, while Ganatra is a graduate in psychology.

Gurav, who lost his sight at 21, was born and brought up in Mumbai. He was a 1995 batch topper at Somaiya College of Engineering. After a five-year stint at Siemens that ended in 2000, he formed his own IT firm (EGenietech) which he sold to a friend after 12 years. He is now a consultant in the same firm.