Mount Kilimanjaro

Rise Up

You don’t get much sleep when you know your wake-up call is coming at 10:30 pm…. even if what awaits you is a daunting 8-hour hike to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro and another 5 hours down to our next camp

Poa Kichizi Com Ndezi

It’s Swahili and means “crazy, cool like a banana.” It’s a phrase our porters and guides on our Survivor Summit adventure on Mount Kilimanjaro used a lot.

At the Foothills of the Next Big Adventure

It seems like I’ve been getting ready for this Livestrong Survivor Summit Mt. Kilimanjaro climb for a year (Patrick says it seems tha way, too). It’s finally about to begin. I was able to cram everything on my gear list into two bags, and neither weighs more than 39 pounds. (Of course, now the trick…

Sundancing

It really was just a stroke of luck that a movie lover like me is living in the town that hosts arguably the world’s biggest and best independent film festival, Sundance.