The Country of the Blind

"The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by English writer H. G. Wells. It was first published in the April 1904 issue of the Strand Magazine and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories. Wells later revised the story and the expanded version was first published by an English private printer, Golden Cockerel Press in 1939. The first collection it appeared in was The Man with the Nose and Other Uncollected Stories of H. G. Wells in 1984. "The Country of the Blind" is one of Wells's best known short stories and features prominently in literature dealing with blindness. While attempting to summit Parascotopetl's unconquered crest, a fictitious mountain in Ecuador, a mountaineer named Nunez slips and falls down the far side of the mountain. At the end of his descent, down a snow-slope in the mountain's shadow, he finds a valley, cut off from the rest of the world on all sides by steep precipices. Unbeknown to Nunez,... full article at wikipedia