On April 30th Westcoast Reader staff brought Martin & Esther Kafer to meet the Mt. Kilimanjaro group. The Kafer’s are a legendary BC mountain climbing couple who are both Guinness World Records recipients for the oldest man (85) and woman (84) to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro! In 2012 they hiked the same route we took on our successful Kilimanjaro adventure. They gave a short talk about their life hiking, skiing and climbing mountains in BC and all over the world since marrying 1953. They have summited over 500 mountain peaks and named over 73 mountains – the number of mountains they were the first people to summit! They are such an inspiration to us all and are stark examples that with the right attitude and passion you can have a very long life of adventures....

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Our fantastic MLA, Jenny Kwan, read a statement out in the House today (April 16th, 2015) about our successful Mt. Kilimanjaro Trek! Jenny has and continues to be a great supporter of our project and its youth. Photo from web by Darryl Dyck/THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Our team prior to departure with some of our great supporters – Geoff Taylor (Britannia Principal), Jenny Kwan (MLA – Vancouver/Mt. Pleasant), Alex Blodgett (seeker of gear sponsorships) and Don Fiddler (VSB District Principal, Aboriginal...

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We are going to be the coolest people on Mt. Kilimanjaro in our killer Ryders sunglasses. Ryders Brand Ambassador Brent Martin let our entire group pick whatever sunglasses they have in their product line – which is HUGE, so that we could control our own cool factor! What a hugely generous sponsorship. Soon you will be seeing how cool we are in our Ryder shades atop Mt. Kilimanjaro!

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Thank you Tom Jones of Terramar Sports for the simply luxurious top and bottom base layers for our entire team! Thank you for the tremendous support. We will be much more prepared  and comfortable with Terramar clothing next to our skin!

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With the fantastic support of Alex Blodgett in so many ways we developed a great partnership with The North Face to supply the Street2Peak Project with duffle bags, the team fleece jackets, base layer tops and daypacks! Thanks to Alex and to Kayla from The North Face!

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