The Mountain

I would like to start by saying I'm sorry for a site that initially sounds like
a downer.
I am excited though...
There are
several important reasons I am writing this site.  I feel the most important to
me is acutally selfish.  I have never been to the African continent.  I know
that I will someday make the journey.  What I am not sure of is if some of the
cultural and natural focal points will be the same by the time I get there.  We
all talk about "Wanting it there for our children", but I have not experienced
why that should be for this mountain.  Basically, I want to hike Mount
Kilimanjaro and its snowfields and glaciers. 
However, the
possible collapse of this ecosystem may not be a unique case.  The physical
natural world is changing and humans (as I'll point out later) are one of those
causes.  We may lose similar ecosystems around the world.  What can affect one
biome can affect many.  What we learn and do in one we can learn and do in
another.
I hope to also explore and provide information on how
the combination of travel, the physical act of participating in a place, and
environmentally sound practices can help to protect and maybe even recover these
places we hope to one day touch.  That maybe these places will last longer than
individual humans.  That we might pass before they are gone.  

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