When my mother shared a recent SandPaper article about two local women conquering Africa’s highest mountain, I thought to myself, what are the chances my husband and I would make the same climb, the same month in the same year, February 2019, from the same island? Evidently pretty good.
Of the 50,000 people worldwide who attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro annually, only 60 to 70 percent make it to Uhuru Peak, at 19,341 feet. We all made it, and coming from lives spent at sea level, that’s frickin’ amazing!
My husband, Giovanni, works for Ocean County and is a Ship Bottom volunteer fireman.
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