In the shadow of Kiliminjaro

Arusha, Tanzania

A “heart-core” adventure ride and Wheels 4 Villages film project

Last spring I decided to combine one of my ‘Hans Rey Adventure Team’ trips with a project for my charity ‘Wheels 4 Life’. Finally I had found, what seemed to be, the perfect place to start our “Wheels 4 Villages Film Project” to document on film over two years the impact bicycles will have on communities and the lives of individuals of the Ugweno Valley in Tanzania; right in the shadow of Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro (5896m/19,344ft.). To launch this project our small team decided to first circumnavigate Kili on our own bikes, via a 220km route to eventually arrive in the remote and impoverished Ugweno Valley in the Northern Pare Mountains.

Check out the PDF report embedded below for the rest of the story.