Mount Kenya Trust

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Sep 12 2008 | By: mountkenya

Don’t get me wrong, I have trekked around Mount Kenya’s forests and camped at altitude for my work hundreds of times but until now I have never actually climbed the mountain! My usual argument/excuse being that I can be of much more use on the ground without the altitude sickness and where there are actually trees and animals to save. How can you hug trees where it is too extreme for them to grow I ask??Having grown up on the Kenya coast my ‘fear’ of cold inability to handle it well has not really disappeared over the years. However I realise that since  the idea of camping above 10,000 ft is mindblowingly scary (extreme cold) and walking uphill for days is equally unappealing, it is probably an even better way to raise funds! I hope I can raise more money simply because this probably one of the toughest things I could possibly put myself through, especially as an asthmatic. This is very much under control these days and I am currently very fit and healthy so I’ll have to keep that way and up the endurance training. So right here right now I am making the commitment to climb to Point Lenana. I am to be joined by four others. Please support the Trust by sponsoring me to do this climb! No pledge is too small - every little counts.