Here’s a great lesson I got to learn first hand on the mountain. I’ve heard Jean-Michel talk about this adage for years, now it was my time to really get it. It goes like this: Read more…

Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro falls into the category of “once in a lifetime opportunity”. So it was great humility that I learned one of the most important pieces of what one might call “mountain wisdom” early on in the journey. That golden nugget is:   Read more…

When Jean-Michel and I dreamed up the idea to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro together 5 years ago it was an innocent brainstorm combining his love of big mountains and mine of hiking. The dream started to become a reality about one year ago when Read more…