With approximately three weeks left until the Expedition Hope/Mt. Kilimanjaro climb, we wanted to give everyone an update on the awareness for depression and mental health that Expedition Hope has generated since its launch in February 2005. We have a great deal to be thankful for and many of you have helped make it all [...]
Mt. Kilimanjaro is located 205 miles south of the equator, at the north/eastern tip of Tanzania, Africa. It rises an impressive 5895 meters (19,340 feet) – it emerges from a rolling plain close to the Indian Ocean, a hot savanna, to a barren and frigid 3-1/2 mile high peak. Its location and great size and [...]
As we begin a new month, I wanted to share one of my favorite climbing quotes: A man climbs the mountains because he needs to climb, because that is the way he is made. Rock and ice and snow and wind and the great blue canopy of the sky are not all he finds upon [...]