A New Jersey man, Jeff Harmon, who uses a wheelchair is training to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
Action News reports that Mr Harmon and his friends from Fitness, Fellowship and Faith (called F-3) are preparing for a trek up one of one of the world’s tallest mountain peaks.
“I’ve been in a wheelchair since 2017 because of a neurological disease. And I started to wonder, could I climb a mountain?” Harmon said.
And he chose to scale Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro, which stands at over 19,000 feet.
This will be no small feat. He’s part of a group called “More Heart Than Scars” that helps those with disabilities reach the highest heights.
“So, as I started talking to my friends at the organization, they said to me, Jeff, if you want to climb Kilimanjaro, you could do it,” he said.
He and his F3 crew set to work.
“I am extremely looking forward to it. Fourteen months into training right now, and so we’ve had the date circled for a while and the excitement keeps building,” Luke Iorio said.
The climb starts on September 7. It will take four days to reach the peak of Kilimanjaro. So that means Harmon and his crew must be ready for the grueling task.
Meanwhile, Harmon puts in vigorous workouts.
His trainer Jamie Volt said: “He climbs the ropes. He does pull-ups. He does his own style of burpees. It’s pretty impressive to watch.”
The members of F3 push the limits to get ready. Harmon’s group is called “My Impossible Makes Every Dream Possible.”
Harmon said: “What I would say to people who are in my shoes, who have an impossible in their life, is you are capable of so much more than you might believe right now.”
