Mr O'Keeffe will set off on his seven-day trek up Mount Kilimanjaro on Thursday. He plans to scale up the 5,895m (19340 ft) ...

This was the hardest, and most fulfilling, but the hardest thing that I have ever been a part of,” he said of the journey.

Jeff Harmon is not going to let limitations define him. The 51-year-old Boonton resident, who has used a wheelchair since 2017, is preparing to climb Mount Kilimanjaro this month with the help of a 32 ...

I did not go to conquer Kilimanjaro. I went to be humbled by it. And somewhere between the mist and the aching muscles, I ...

This is part of WTOP’s continuing coverage of people making a difference from our community authored by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more of that coverage. A D.C. woman, who is believed to be one of ...

Just one year ago, Owensboro native Brandon Cox began hiking the 19,341-foot Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain located in Tanzania, as a St. Jude Hero alongside five other climbers from ...

Lucretia Pintacuda, an Asheville native with Parkinson’s Disease, is preparing to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. MOUNT MITCHELL - ...

Most people climb Mount Kilimanjaro with two legs, but the CEO of the Kirk Gibson Foundation for Parkinson’s plans to climb it with one. Former Tigers outfielder Kirk "Gibby" Gibson created the ...

WLKY NEWS AT 11, A STAFF MEMBER AT U OF L IS REACHING NEW HEIGHTS WHILE HELPING OUT A GREAT CAUSE. LAURA DIXON IS CLIMBING MOUNT KILIMANJARO IN TANZANIA TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE.

Ahmed Jibril and his team on a recent practice climb in Ngong Hills. At this moment, a group of people, most of them over 60, are climbing Mt Kilimanjaro to raise money for the elderly in a journey ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A staff member and alumna of the University of Louisville is making plans to climb the highest mountain in Africa to benefit people with a rare, inherited neurological disease ...