This member spotlight is actually a member update. Wally first told his story as an Eye on Wellness Award winner in 2009. He's back at it again, this time hiking Mount Aconcagua.
Mount Aconcagua, located between Mendoza, Argentina and Santiago, Chile, is the highest mountain in the world outside the Himalayan range in Asia. It is nearly 22,841 feet high. My ascent took me to a new personal elevation record of 21,063 - that's four miles high! I like to say I climbed my age of 63, plus 21,000 feet. Summit Day temperature was -25 degrees below zero and wind gusts of up to 70 miles per hour were enough to knock you off your feet. Throughout my climbs on five of the Seven Summits (the highest mountains on each of the seven continents) I have been blessed to raise more than $80,000 to create three youth obesity programs at rural southern Indiana hospital ministeries of St. Vincent Hospital. The programs are offered in connection with the L.I.F.E for Kids Lifetime Individual Fitness and Eating clinical program offered at Peyton Manning Childrens Hospital at St. Vincent.
Here I am at Camp 1, elevation 16,400 feet, where I am checking GoZone steps and miles.
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What an inspiration. God Bless you as you are able to bless others.
Posted by: Lynette DeAtley | 11 May 2012 at 12:37 PM
How inspiring!! Enjoy your travels!
Posted by: tj | 02 March 2012 at 02:23 PM
Dang... where do you get the money to fund your endeavors; I'd love to do what you do.
Posted by: Paul | 21 February 2012 at 10:45 AM