Deadline to fundraise is 6/1/23!!

Last year I hiked Mt. St Helens with Climb for Clean Air and it was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Both for myself personally and my own goals, but also helping in the battle for lung health, which I spent too much of my life ignoring.

This year I thought a lot about what I want from my life; am I the person I want to be? I feel the call to push myself harder, and so this year I'm raising a lot more money and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. I am not, at the time of writing this, able to make this climb, and if it were just on me, I don't know if I would. But by hitching this goal to a cause that I believe in so strongly, and by asking others to hold me accountable... well only then do I think I can really do it.

I will be coming up with ways to entertain anyone who donates, no matter the size of the donation! Thank you to all, and may your dreams be big and your life experiences be even bigger.

But enough about me, because as my climbing hero Nashrah puts it: 

I always tell folks who are participating for the first time that they need to remind themselves - they are not asking strangers for money for themselves - you are asking folks to donate to the 36 million people suffering from lung disease! Their money will be going to save and improve lives, while preventing lung diseases through education, advocacy and research. If that doesn't quite land or is vague, remind everyone that you speak to that it is because of research funding from the American Lung Association that we now have a COVID-19 vaccine!