Higher Ground

Nick Claudio ’22 may have lost his vision to cancer at age 9, but the Massachusetts native has never let blindness stop him. In fact, it’s barely slowed him down. The highlights of his just-completed first year at Boston College include singing with the Common Tones, serving on his dorm’s residential hall council—and making a nine-day guided trek up Mount Kilimanjaro. Hiking through wind and hail to the snow-capped summit of the world’s tallest freestanding mountain “was one of the greatest experiences of my life,” he said. “I have this sense that I can do anything now.” ◽