My Kilimanjaro Journal

05 Sep My Kilimanjaro Journal

“There, ahead, all we could see, as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun, was the square top of Kilimanjaro.”

—Ernest Hemingway

Nearly 23 years ago, on October 9, 2003, alongside three climbing brothers, I summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, up and across the treacherous Western Breach, to 19,341 feet—to the top of Africa’s highest mountain, the highest free-standing mountain in the world.

Here is my original and unedited journal—here is how it happened . . .

—David Morey