it's hard to believe it's been a week since i wrote what i was doing for the trip. how time flies!!! the fund raising for the trip is coming right along as we have reach our first milestone and are steadily building toward our goal. the week has brought me a few easy workouts and a few really tough ones. i'm anxious to to get to denver to go all those stairs and see exactly where i am in my training.
i've been doing alot of reading about the mountain and the area surrounding it. wow! what a diverse place! and the history of the area and its native people is not that much different than that of the american indians. with not much european influence until the mid-1800s, and a very unique and isolated place until well into the 20th century. and for a mountain that has such a large number of people attempting to summit each year, it was amazing to me how many failed attempts, many of which left people dead on the mountain, and years it took before someone finally summited kibo, the highest peak on kilimanjaro. i know it's alot different today, with all the cleared trails and the handful of routes that are regularly taken, but it really put things into perspective and lets you know that this mountain is not one to be taken lightly.
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