Today was the beginning of what would soon become a long journey. One that would take us miles across a mountain until we reached its frost bitten peak. We went to the entrance of Mt.Kenya and stood there and paid off the entrance fees for each challenger. We all stood there and were introduced to our mountain guides: Charles, Isac, and Robert. We all loaded up our supplies and got into the jeeps and entered the mountain. We drove across the gentle valleys and it was like looking at an evergreen heaven. The plain was vast and we drove until we reached the forest. We were driving through an open orange paved pathway and we were driven to the half way mark to the Med.Station. We were dropped off and we began the rest of the ... read more

We woke up early in the morning tried, weary eyed, and annoyed and set off to one of the local farmers markets to buy things for lunch like fruits, vegetables, and other various foods . We only sent a few challengers in to retrieve the items because the place was overrun with people trying to sell us things. It was a mess of people and once they noticed foreigneers, which was my fellow challengers and I it was a race to sell us food. I was slightly surprised by the number of people who chased us in the bus and tried to sell us fruits, I wasn't happy to see that people in this country were this desparate to even make barely enough money to survive but later on I saw more and more of this ... read more

We are students of UAS and we are the nine students embarking on the trip of a lifetime. We are known as Team Kenya as we are travelling on June 20th to the country in Africa known as Kenya. We are a team of eight boys and one girl and our names are: Homam Zituni, Abdulla Moaswes, Aya Gadwat, Nader Al-Sayes, Abdel-Rahman Hassan, Fady El-Garawany, Alex Koch, Yassin Al-Shehabi, and Nawfawl Al-Barwani.We will be visiting several cities in Kenya (some of are Nairobi and Naruku) and trying to maintain ourselves in a foreign country on a budget like adults would. It will take strength and determination to pull this adventure off and nothing but pure persistence throughout the two week trip. We will first be climbing Mt.Kenya, the toughest mountain to climb in all of Africa, ... read more