Blind Mountain Biker Navigates With Echolocation

Most of us know of echolocation from nature documentaries. Wise British narrators explain the extraordinary manner in which peculiar animals like bats and dolphins navigate their world. What most don’t understand is that this form of navigation is actually something that humans are capable of, though in a far more rudimentary manner.

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By creating periodic clicking noises with their tongues, humans can learn to interpret the slight changes in the sound of the clicks to roughly understand what surrounds them. Brian Bushway has become so proficient at this seemingly impossible manner of “seeing” that he can ride a mountain bike whilst navigating by echolocation.