First person to climb mount Kilimanjaro with AIDS / HIV

 First person to  climb mount Kilimanjaro with AIDS / HIV

In January 2003, I successfully summited Mount Kilimanjaro while living with AIDS.

At that time, I had been HIV-positive for 15 years and had AIDS for 10 years.

This climb may have been the first documented ascent of Kilimanjaro by a person living with AIDS.

Here’s a short video of the climb on YouTube:

🎥 link to video on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/Q1jPkj32zHA?si=WUbTJBJ-16dd95nM

Over 20 years later, the experience still reminds me how much strength and resilience people with HIV have — and how far we’ve come.

I’m only posting this now, because many people since have claimed to be the first.  

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