My friend Chan and I went to Aja Monet’s spoken word gig recently and Aja asked the crowd ‘what does vulnerability mean to you?’ For me vulnerability is actively trusting a stranger to save…

In what seems like no time at all, I hear Lorien’s voice outside our tent.  Time to get up.  It is 10:30pm.  It is time.   It is so cold. I am tempted to…

For me, breathing is becoming an issue.  So this is what it will be.  The mountain will affect my breathing. Time to focus. I practice a bit of mindfulness and try to relax various…

Dickson had said Day 3, Lava Tower day would be the telling day.  He was not wrong.  The weather had made a decisive change.  We woke up to a foggy start and it was…

Day Two starts with glorious weather! Andrew wakes up at camp with a headache.  We asked him to rate it between 1 and 10 and this number varied.  He felt well enough to carry on…

Slow exhale. We arrive at the Machame gate the start of our route up the mountain after approximately an hour’s drive from our hotel. I remember the guides Dickson and Isaya teasing our liaison…

It started when stepping onto Kenyan Airways at Heathrow Airport. The beautiful dark skinned air hostesses (male and female) who greeted with warm smiles, the lyrical accent and language which told of the exotic…

So it is done! Woo hoo!! My new adventure starts on the 3rd of October! Kili here I come! (Check me out.  Abbreviations and everything).  A friend of mine Kelly is coming too!  One or…

  This year I am going to do it. This is something that I have been wanting to do for so long.  It has been one of my secret goals, one I hadn’t told…