We're in Moshi, Tanzania and it's go-time! We're doing our final prep for an adventure that we've been looking forward to and anticipating for the better part of a year...reaching THE SUMMIT of Mount Kilimanjaro ON International Women's Day! From the second we landed our chilled tense New York bones were basking in the welcoming warm Tanzanian air. It's something that we feel every time we're here and one of the reasons we fell in love with this place. Something that's hard to explain, but, once you've been here, you get.
Read moreONE WOMAN'S JOURNEY through Cheez-its, sour worms, and high altitude
I never thought my life would come to depend on a bag of neon-colored sour worms and Cheez-Its. At 5,895 meters on the top of Kilimanjaro, having not eaten in two days, with no appetite (aside from the aforementioned snacks), frozen extremities, and half out of my mind, I had to ask myself, “HOW DID I END UP HERE?”
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