So we have just one week to go until we meet up at Heathrow airport to start our epic adventure to Africa - a continent that played a huge part in making my husband Tomasz the man he was.. Tom spent two years travelling through and working in Africa before we met at Swansea University in 2004; he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 1999. Now I am going to follow in his footsteps to see what all the fuss was about!
I, however, am not going alone - I will be with a whole team of our friends, to experience this amazing challenge together. We are also joined by an inspirational and strong young woman, Sian, whose fiance Paul Woodland (also a Royal Marine) died in October 2012. So with Tom and Woody in mind, we are a team on a mission to achieve something in their name; something to be proud of, just as we are of them.
We have had an overwhelming amount of support from both people we know and from complete strangers over this past year. Having spent so much time planning, training and fundraising for this 8 day trek up the Lemosho route on Kili, the start is nearly upon us and we are raring to go! Please keep sharing the story as every message of support we get really does give a huge morale boost and makes us even more determined to succeed.
Emylie x
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