Articles tagged ‘Kilimanjaro Climber Profiles’
Daisy Ko
By Donovan | May 16th, 2005 |
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When I’m not on the road, you’re most likely going to find me either in class at the University of Washington, at events featuring electronica music, hanging out with friends at coffee shops, or at work as a part-time sales associate. After graduating in March, I plan to go back to Tanzania to volunteer [...]
Madhu Reddy
By Donovan | May 15th, 2005 | Add a Comment »
I’m a dreamer.The day I saw Gregory Peck in the
Hemmingway novel about “Snows of Kilimajaro” I knew I
had to see this mountain. Don’t think I ever thought
about climbing it…but now I will.
Little ol’ me was born in the Deccan town of Hyderabad
in India. Grew up in Goa before it became a
backpackers have…landed in the concrete [...]
Mark Horner
By Donovan | May 14th, 2005 | Add a Comment »
Mark Horner. Thirty-eight years old. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Home is Big Bear Lake, CA when I am back in the states. I am currently working in Iraq for ‘THAT’ government contractor. I am currently involved in bringing water to the masses over here. Here being Al [...]
Chris Heidrich
By Donovan | May 13th, 2005 | Add a Comment »
Chris is from Brisbane, Australia and began his journey in 1996 with some friends on a trip to Chicago to pick up Sean, and then on to England to see the Euro ‘96 football tournament. Thus began a steep learning curve as he realised the folly in trying to haul 4 pairs of shoes wherever [...]
Sean E. Keener
By Donovan | May 13th, 2005 | Add a Comment »
Sean grew up in Chicago, Illinois and began his journey in 1994 with a year of study at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. His studies and travels there inspired him as he met travellers from all over the world. He quickly learned that a holiday can be more than 1 week next to [...]
Donovan Pacholl
By Donovan | May 13th, 2005 | Add a Comment »
After close to four years of public relations work, Donovan took a life-changing journey through 16 countries, where he concluded that the world of travel was his passion. At the age of 27 he embarked on his second journey to Tanzania, East Africa. There he established his own roots and began the start-up of a [...]
Courtney Ries
By Donovan | May 13th, 2005 | Add a Comment »
Courtney “Tennis Court” Ries is the youngest brat of the BootsnAll bunch.
The midwest native was born in Milwaukee and moved all around the freezing cold Northern states before landing in Apple Valley, Minnesota, which, despite it’s name, has no apple trees. Tired of living in the ‘burbs half an hour out of ‘the city’, she [...]
Marisa Umsawasdi
By Donovan | May 13th, 2005 | 2 Comments »
An adventure nut by nature — you’ll likely find me scaling rocks, abseiling down glacier-melt waterfalls, rafting in frigid waters, jumping out of planes, hanggliding over picturesque shark infested waters, kayaking past dolphins…and for the latest adventure, summitting Mt. Kilimanjaro! Hopefully… Yes, I love adventure and am an adrenaline junkie. But I’ll [...]
Francesca Mazurkiewicz
By Donovan | May 13th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
My name is Francesca but I am better known in the BootsnAll community as Freesia. I have lived in Chicago just about my whole life and this is where I first met the Boot Boyz, Sean and Chris, back in 1997. I was lucky enough to be around for the beginning of BootsnAll, [...]
