I want to be careful about how I frame this because I am not a therapist and the mountain is not a cure. What I can tell you is that Kilimanjaro did something for my mental health that twenty years of managing depression with medication and therapy had not managed to do. And there is science behind why that might be true.

Kilimanjaro is not therapy. But what it does to the mind — the clarity, the presence, the self-knowledge is something most people have not experienced since childhood.