Armchair Climber I like to think that I became a mountain climber the late afternoon, evening and night that I frantically read Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air", in the winter of 1997. The big hard cover edition was sitting on a colleague's desk, and since I was alone in the office on a Saturday, I figured he'd left it there for the weekend. I left a note saying that ...
Helene Barrette (center-front) on the summit of Kilimanjaro September 11, 2003. Two years after the 9/11 that marked us all forever, I lived another event that has changed me forever: at around 8am local time, I reached the summit of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa at 5,895m. The view was amazing, the sun still rising in the distance over vast plains, and I was surrounded by nearly 300 ...
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