Funmi Iyanda just decended mount Kilimanjaro after five days of hiking and climbing for 10 hours a day through rain forest, tundra and artic regions.
On March 5, the television talkshow personality and journalist joined 32 other personalities to climb Africa’s highest mount, a project organised by the Africa UNITE campaign group as part of a crusade to end violence against women and girls.
Other climbers included South African rock band, the Parlotones; South African actress, Rosie Motene; human rights lawyer, Ann Njogu; Congolese singer, Barbara Kanam; and many other African women and men. They were expected to arrive at Africa’s highest summit on Thursday, which fell on International Women’s Day.
In her tweets Saturday evening (March 10), she recounted how she had no bath and was equipped with bare necessities, climbing at 20 degrees in a winding ascent.
She said she vomitted, had diarhoea, sleep apnea and dizziness. “I was cut off completely. Nothing prepares one for that mountain. Nothing. At a point, l questioned my sanity. I wept many times.
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I applaud her for representing Nigeria and making it to the end.
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