Bill Irwin's life has been filled with pain trying to cope with divorce, alcoholism, estranged children and blindness. Soon, his life changed in many ways, ways that would eventually lead him to answer a call to walk the Appalachian Trail with his seeing eye dog, Orient. This is a remarkable story of commitment, perseverance and the will to survive. Blind Courage tells the story of the first blind person to hike the entire trail through fourteen states, along 2,168 miles sending a message to us all to pursue our own impossible dreams.