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Is This Your Year To Climb
Mt. Kilimanjaro?
Join the 2012 Ascent for Alzheimer’s team and summit with 10 other B.C. hikers in Tanzania, Africa in September 2012.
For the information you need on this once in a lifetime opportunity, contact Alyssa Brownsmith Special Events Officer, via e-mail abrownsmith@alzheimerbc.org or complete our online form.
The 2011 Ascent for Alzheimer's team reached Uhuru Peak!
Everyone on the 2011 team reached the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro! They arrived at Uhuru peak as a team on Sunday, Oct. 2 after a difficult 8.5 hour trek to get there. However, the pain, exhaustion and difficult weather they experienced paled in comparison to the sense of achievement they felt after having reached their goals individually, and as a team. Their emotions could not be contained in the phone call home on Monday morning from Horombo Hut by Marian Lowery to the Alzheimer Society of B.C. office.
Lowery called it “the experience of a lifetime”. She said the entire team was “totally moved when we got to the top. It was just overwhelming for us,” she added. “There were lots of tears, there were lots of photographs of people doing special things with the flags they brought – we had some prayer flags and some shells that somebody had brought.”
Read the hike journal entry and listen to Monday's podcast.
Together, this year's team has raised over $127,000!
Marian Lowery, 2011 Ascent team member
Ascent for Alzheimer’s is…
- a journey in September to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, which stands at 19,340 feet above sea level and is the highest mountain on the continent of Africa
- personal journey that symbolically represents the mountainous struggle that people living with the disease, their caregivers and family face every single day
- for many participants, part of a personal mandate to give back to the cause by raising money through the event and joining the Alzheimer Society of B.C. in supporting those with the disease through education, support, advocacy, and research
- unique to other fundraising initiatives because participants are raising funds for the event ($10,000), as well as covering their own travel costs, so we are proud to say that every dollar raised through Ascent for Alzheimer’s goes directly to supporting the cause
- a physically challenging accomplishment as well, which is why well-known and respected guide Sue Oakey, of Whistler, B.C. coordinates local training for the participants, and will accompany the team up the mountain
- led by Seamus Brice-Bennett, a Marangu (Tanzanian) native who has explored Mt. Kilimanjaro extensively and organizes hundreds of treks each year, with local guides and porters accompanying the team
- currently in its fourteenth year (inaugural hike 1998) with more than 160 Ascent alumni who have collectively raised more than $2 million
Do you have what it takes to hike Mt.Kilimanjaro?
They had it! Learn why from members of the 2010 Ascent for Alzheimer’s Team.
Find out what past hikers have to say on the Ascent for Alzheimer's Alumni Facebook page.
2011 Ascent for Alzheimer's Team
Photos courtesy of Northstar Adventures.
Is this your year?
If you or your family, friends or colleagues have what it takes to hike Mt. Kilimanjaro, we’d like to hear from you! For more information on how you can join an Ascent Team, contact:
Alyssa Brownsmith
Special Events Officer
Phone: 604-742-4920
Toll-free: 1-800-667-3742
E-mail: abrownsmith@alzheimerbc.org
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