A Callout to All Climbers, Dreamers and Conservationists
Here’s a way you can do something extraordinary even while in lockdown: fund cleanups, save jobs and save lives in the process
If you have ever climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, or dreamed of it, especially for this year and had to cancel, you may well know that this remarkable summit has its share of problems.
Garbage, for one, just like Everest and many of the world’s other most beautiful places. Those of us who regularly do adventure travel are all too aware of the filth that less-than-aware folks are happy to toss to the side. Multiply that filth times some fifty thousand people and their porters times since 1889, albeit the intensity of our “donations” including human waste has been skyrocketing in more recent years. There have been some cleanup movements, but the problem is massive.
I did this climb in 2013, and can attest to how carefully you have to step off the main drag to relieve yourself to avoid bringing someone else’s environmental “donations” back lodged in your hiking boots.
What would happen if you and I could find a way to give a few bucks to help clean up that mountain, keep people employed during these tough times, and better ensure that a cleaner, healthier mountain is in our…
