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…

Starting a blog has seemed absolutely monumental to me. I’ve fretted, resisted, struggled, anguished, whined, pouted, procrastinated, ranted, simpered and a whole lot of other tactics that got me nowhere except in a bad mood. Then, one day, I luckily remembered something that had inspired me over five years ago, when I was about to begin a solo walking pilgrimage of 50 days and over 800 miles on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Back then I’d come across a simple Chinese proverb: Read more…