“More painful than childbirth”
“I’d rather have a full frontal lobotomy without anaesthetic than do that again”
Comments by climbers after reaching the top of Kilimanjaro
“That sounds like fun”
Comment made by idiots
You know how it is; you are in the pub, having a few beers, talking rubbish, when you decide that you would like to climb the highest freestanding mountain in the world. A dormant stratovolcano that is the highest point on the African continent at 5,985 metres above sea level.
Back in the summer of 2006, two somewhat rotund (although we prefer the term ‘cuddly’) friends, Brian and Ross were drunkenly discussing travel. Where we had been, what we would like to do. Ross was getting ready to walk the Inca Trail, had done volunteer work in
Asia and maybe enjoyed the odd pie or ten. Brian had driven across the Kalahari and Namib deserts, bravely walked from bar to bar and enjoyed a good slap up meal with a bottle or two of wine.
But that night, the exact date is lost in a haze of alcohol, we decided that we would climb
Mount Kilimanjaro in 2007.
Websites were consulted, books were read, plans were made. We decided that it would actually be possible, albeit with an improvement in our individual health and fitness. An additional pie and beer-loving idiot, Rob, decided that he would join in on the off chance that there may be food involved. So, on the 1 September 2007 we will start the six day climb up to the summit of Kilimanjaro along the northern Shira route.
Rather than just bask in the glory of our achievements and wait for supermodels to throw themselves at our bronzed, slimmed-down and muscular post-climb physiques, we thought that we could use the opportunity to raise some money for a good cause.
Cancer Research is the world’s leading independent organisation dedicated to cancer research. You can fund out all about them and the work that they do here: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/
We will also be doing this ‘blogging’ thing that all the kids seem to do these days. So if you want to point and laugh at people trying to get fit and failing, then head on over to www.twofatlardies.com/blog. We will try to update this on a regular basis with progress. You should be warned that as we are three gentlemen with an average mental age of 14, there may be the occasional naughty word or two.
