From today's APOD - Sunrise Over Kilimanjaro. Beautiful. My current (physical, out there in the real world, tangible) goal is to climb the highest mountain in Africa before I get too old / fat / unfit (also a great excuse to visit my favourite store). Unfortunately my wife is against the whole idea, and was even before Caleb was born (she also won't let me go into space when I finally win more than $20m in the lottery). Honestly.
My love, read the Wikipedia article - and note phrases like "The climb to Uhuru Peak is considered to be a relatively straightforward endeavour" and "
Annually, approximately 15,000 people attempt to climb the mountain". goafrica also says "The exciting thing about this mountain is that anyone who is fit and determined can make it up. No special climbing equipment or expertise is needed.". I'll be on babysitting duty for a whole year :-)
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Someone will not be getting any dinner ;)
Hmm... You must play with Google Earth.
Download it, install it and then load this file into it: http://www.drummondtor.co.za/private/kilimanjaro.kmz
OK, you can climb the stupid mountain.....WHEN you buy me a jeep grand cherokee, brand new. neener neener, neener.
Check out my blog which details all my preparation for the Kili climb and will shortly have updates for how it went. This google earth KML documents our journey
http://www.richardbyrom.com/index.php?ACT=30&fid=4&aid=79