To start your new year, get your beverage of choice and settle in for an hour to watch this documentary by Colin Nanka of his hike up Kilimanjaro and follow-on safari. It makes it seem very real: real people, real weather, real trails, real triumphs. You can enlarge the video to full-screen mode but it seems to lose some clarity when you do that. Imax it's not but it doesn't matter.
There is also a PBS NOVA video called "Volcano Above the Clouds" about Kilimanjaro which has a lot of good information from a different perspective.
As I was watching I found myself alternating between really, really wanting to do this with full confidence in being able to train for it...and being completely intimidated by the physical and mental challenges it presents. I think I have to do as the song says: Jump in and never look back.
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