He did it.
GCSAA Chief Executive Officer Rhett Evans reached the snow-covered summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro earlier today. For those who are counting, that is 19,341 feet above sea level.
As promised, Evans brought a GCSAA Golf Championship flag to leave behind at the summit (here he is pictured with it). He also hit some golf balls (with a GCSAA logo, of course) from, as he said "the roof of Africa." Mt. Kilimanjaro, the largest free-standing mountain in the world, is located in Tanzania.
Evans, who used vacation time to join five friends to make the climb, began the challenge last Sunday. He overcame laryngitis and Acute Mountain Sickness, which is caused by a lack of oxygen as climbers ascend higher altitudes. Evans even got an image of one of the golf balls, resting on snow, before he gave it a ride.
Congratulations on your acomplishment of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. That is truly amazing.
I think that I saw a GCSAA golf ball in the 8" of snow we got this morning :)
Posted by: Dave Fearis | February 26, 2013 at 02:03 PM
Our family has climbed many mountains but not that high. Getting high on vacation is always a good idea!
Congratulations on your accomplishment. Remember, it is never a successful climb until you descend.
Posted by: Sam Snyder CGCS ret. | February 28, 2013 at 12:25 PM
Congrats Rhett, The willpower it took to accomplish this amazing feat will be with you forever.You climbed the mountain,as you run the GCSAA with great success.Thanks for every thing you do for our association......
Posted by: Marshall N. Brown | March 01, 2013 at 09:05 AM