The Climb Days 7,8, And The After: The Guy Who Summits With No Legs Is Allowed My Thunder

Leslie Kleinberg Zacks
15 min readDec 14, 2022
Photo is property if the author who climbed this fucking mountain to get it

The last 48 hours of the climb are a blur. It has been four days since we completed the summit and came down about 15,000 feet over two days to the Mweka gate on the eastern end of the national park. It has taken me this long to find the quiet time and words to start to think through how I want to tell this part of the story. I have…

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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

Writing about whatever I feel like. Mom with a career. Filled with love and rage. It’s cool- I’m not for everyone. twitter @lesliezacks zacks.leslie@gmail.com