Summit day should actually be called summit days. We arrived at Kosovo Camp in the late afternoon. Camp was dreary and cold when we arrived,

When I wrote about the army of porters that supported our group up Mount Kilimanjaro, it may have seemed as if they were a monolithic

I’ve written about three physical techniques that gave support to our team in our successful summiting of Mount Kilimanjaro—the mountaineer’s rest step, pole pole pace,

Breathing just comes naturally to us. We don’t even have to think about it. It’s an automatic function our bodies perform to keep us alive.

My hiking style, especially when I hike alone, is to move fast, then pause to catch my breath when the need arises. I like to

I recently returned from an epic hiking/trekking adventure where I summited Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, an East African country.  There are so many stories and