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Reporter and her family climb Africa's tallest mountain

By Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal

At 16,000 feet above sea level, with a cold relentless wind battering the orange nylon walls of our tent, I watched a guide carry the ailing hiker off and disappear into the cloud line below.

In that instant I found myself questioning my decision to bring the three most important people in my life -- my family -- on this mountaineering expedition. Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the famous Seven Summits -- the name given to the highest point on each continent. It is also the tallest free-standing mountain in the world. To get to there, my husband John Grantz and I traveled to Tanzania in East Africa with our daughters, Elliott, 21, and Jordan, 19.

At the age when our daughters have become busy with their own adult lives, we saw this as a last opportunity to experience an epic family adventure.

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Reporter and her family climb Africa's tallest mountain



2019-02-18 - Africa - Photo by Nikki Boliaux and Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal.
The Courier Journal's Kirby Adams and her family climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, and one of the Seven Summits.

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