Kissing Kibo: Trekking to the Summit of Mount Kilimanjaro via the Lemosho Route
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I kept moving. By this time, I’d gotten into a rhythm. The sun had come up, and I was at the head of the trekking team. In a strange way, I felt exuberant, vindicated. I remembered the biblical quote: “The first shall become last and the last shall become first.” For the first time, I really felt that I was going to make it to the top. As I hiked onward, I saw people gathered together in the glacier snow. I then noticed that they were gathered around a sign that I had seen in pictures many times as I imagined myself atop Mount Kilimanjaro. This sign still seemed very far away, even though it was only a few yards. Our expedition kept trekking. We were now in a straight line, all looking bedraggled as we trudged through the knee-high snow. When I mustered enough strength to look upward, I declared to the expedition, “I can see victory on the horizon.”
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As a single, female, African American, over-forty, divorcee, the author had an epiphany: She had better start living her life. Having lost both parents early in life, she reasoned that she had many more years behind her than left in front of her. That meant that she would embark on doing all of the things she’d ever dreamt of doing. Having never so much as camped out for longer than a day, she decided to take a trip far from the concrete confines of her urban life, and embark on a solo sojourn with Mother Nature to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, East Africa. She had no earthly idea what to expect; not even a clue of whether she could survive at an altitude of 9,000 feet, much less the height of Mount Kilimanjaro at 19,340 feet. Even so, she made the journey across the Atlantic to the top of the highest free-standing mountain in the world. Join the author on this journey as you read her first-person account, and her insight into how you, too, can make a successful trek to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.
About the Author
In July 2008, Sheree Marshall, a self-avowed naturalist, summitted the world’s highest free-standing mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. Dr. Marshall was born on Long Island, New York, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She was graduated from Emory University with degrees in sociology and psychology. She earned a Masters degree in Educational Psychology from Georgia State University and a PhD in Human Development and Family Studies from The Pennsylvania State University. When she’s not traveling, Sheree works as a behavioral scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia and teaches sociology courses at Georgia State University. She lives in Decatur, Georgia with her dog, Vince.