Word: kilimanjaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such self-abnegation cannot have come easily. So intense was Bayi's desire to stave off Walker's onslaught on his record that he had been rising before dawn each morning at the Tanzanian training camp near Mount Kilimanjaro to take a brisk, eight-mile jog through the chill highlands air-at a formidable sub-six-minute-mile pace. Later in the day, after calisthenics and a rest, the slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) miler would run to the point of exhaustion. Unlike the notoriously roistering Walker, Bayi does not smoke or drink, and, while...
After then travelling through India, Nepal, and the veldts of East Africa (where Land Rover safaris past Kilimanjaro and across the Serengeti plain were the major method of instruction), the year concluded at Jaeger's villa overlooking the Mediterranean at Sperlonga, Italy. Only a few of the students--one a woman who remained in a Sherpa village near Mt. Everest--failed to join the rest for the final week of the school. The week was given over to thesis writing (or dancing, or narrating) for those concerned about academic credit when they returned to their respective colleges...
Before that, Bayi, like most East African runners, had no formal coaching. He learned to run long distances in the fields around Karatu, his home town, located about 130 miles from the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. For added sport, he dodged the leopards that hunted in the same area ("I had to throw stones at one once," says Bayi coolly. "He went his way, and I went mine"). In those days, he had "no program. I was just running...
...Americans setting out in a fit of peak to make it to the top of Whitney, the Forest Service has reluctantly limited the number of overnight climbers to 75 a day. Reservations are required. But forget about Fridays and Saturdays through August. Whitney is already booked solid. Give Mount Kilimanjaro a call...
Since the gangrene started in his right leg he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and anger that this was the end of it. -Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro...