Naigzy gebremedhin biography for kids printable

By Guest Writer: Alemseged Tesfai. These are credentials that anyone would be justified to boast about for a lifetime. But Naigzy has always had more to offer, although, in his humble nature, one has to nudge and push him to talk about them. In my association with him at CARP, I used to notice how he would clench his fists whenever he tensed up for some reason.

I asked him why.

Naigzy gebremedhin biography for kids printable: At 84yo, Dr. Naigzy

Do you want to come along? He called me the day after his second visit to Bizen and we celebrated the feat with a couple of beers at Sunshine Hotel. My real surprise came in or , when I received a message that he had distributed to friends informing us that he had celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday on top of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

More surprising to me was that it was not his first climb up that formidable elevation. He had done it at 25 when Kenya was still a British colony in ; and again at 50, every quarter century. On his plans for a third attempt, an amused admirer had told him that conquering Kilimanjaro twice in a lifetime was heroic, going for a third was madness.