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Thabana Ntlenyana: The highest mountain peak in Southern Africa

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Mount Everest is on most avid hikers’ bucket lists. Not mine. I h*te myself I know this, but not enough to go looking for death. The hikers’ bug started in 2014 when a friend suggested Mt Kilimanjaro. I took the idea and ran with it, summitting namaHili-Hili in February of 2015. Summitting mountain peaks has since become an addiction. Mt Kilimanjaro was followed by Mt Fuji in 2018. When the itch came again this year to visiting izintaba zokhahlamba (the Drakensberg you illiterate swine) I thought instead of doing just the Drakensberg, why not make it a thing and summit Thabana Ntlenyana, Lesotho the highest peak in Southern Africa? Let’s just do the whole thing or forget about it, right? An email to the usual suspects rendered the expected response, “yes, lets” My brother could not make it this time. He’s a family man in a house full of queens, we could not convince him.  We drove down to Underberg on the day of the expedition to meet our team, crossing to the Kingdom of L
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Notre DAMN!!!

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I heard the song Somebody To Love for the very first time on 2008. I was working and studying in England at the time. That was arguably the longest year of my life, working 14 to 16 hours a day like a typical foreigner. I was lying in the bathtub after yet another 14 hour Saturday, playing George Michael’s Ladies and Gentlemen Disc 2 to calm me down. Faith, the last track faded followed by silence as expected. A few moments later I heard “Thank you very much. This song is one of my favourites, it’s called Somebody To Love” These are the lyrics : Each morning I get up I die a little I can barely stand on my feet Take a look in the mirror and cry Lord what you're doing to me I have spent all my years in believing you But I just can't get no relief, Lord! Somebody, somebody Can anybody find me somebody to love? These lyrics spoke directly to what I was going through. I was exhausted and beginning to doubt God's love. It became my most favourite song fro
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In Jap-HEN: Ama Hili-Hili in Asia

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I spent two weeks in hospital after Mount Kilimanjaro in 2015. The thoracic surgeon said I had suffered such a severe case of pleural effusion, I had in fact done the whole thing using one lung. They had stapled the chest to prevent  the repetition of this in the future. That was not going to stop me from living my life of course. I soon started shopping for the next adventure.  The only condition however was an altitude lower than Mount Kilimanjaro. I’m not scared of death but aint no way I’m tempting fate, no Sir.  I  found the picturesque Macchu Picchu out in Peru. It takes more than 30 hours and 2 connecting flights to get there however. I don’t know if I’d be in the mood to climb a Goddamn mountain after having flown for that long. I canned that idea; chose Mount Fuji instead and informed the troops: The Power of Three, Amahili-hili. Who is the Power of Three you ask. This is the same team that conquered Mount Kilimanjaro back in 2015.  Kilimanjaro 2015 My brother and the N
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