Thank You from the Kili4Cancer Team

As we're sure you will remember, we set a fairly ambitious goal a few months back, aiming to climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa to raise money for Cancer Research. The idea was to raise $1 for every metre of the mountain. As the highest mountain on the African continent, "Kili" stands at 5,895 metres, so our fundraising goal was set at $5,895.

Before we even left Canada we realized just how difficult our fundraising goal was going to be. I recall telling Doreen, my Wife, that I wasn't sure we were going to make it in December as we only had a little over $1,000 raised by then. With a lot of help from her, my Parents, fellow climbers Scott Day and Jamie "Hamish" McVicar, I am very happy to say that were were able to reach our fundraising goal. In fact, we exceeded it, thanks to some extraordinary generosity from many wonderful people. We received 67 donations including 31 from Ontario, 22 from Alberta, 2 from the Belle Province, 2 from Texas and one each from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Utah and Alaska. You know who you are, but we would like to thank all you from the bottom of our hearts.

Many of you followed our Live Web-Log (Blog) at www.Kili4Cancer.com as we posted updates each day as we ascended this massive mountain. What we did not write in our Blog was that your donations provided the motivation and the positive pressure that we needed to reach the summit. After six days of climbing up higher and higher, we found that all our training and conditioning were being tested in a big way by the lack of oxygen above 15,000 feet. Every step was a major effort and we had to keep pausing after only a few steps to catch our breath in the rare air! I can say that for me, remembering all the donations and all the positive thoughts that we received from each of you, well, *that* is what kept me going on that last midnight push to the Roof Of Africa!

Our donations are now closed and our expedition is now safely back on Canadian soil. At this stage we would like to extend our most humble appreciation to each of you for your support and encouragement. We have posted a Slideshow of Photos to the bottom of our website at www.kili4cancer.com if you are interested in seeing more images from our climb or the Maasai Visit and Safari we took part in afterwards.

Thank you agin, very much, for helping us DO SOMETHING BIG!!!

Terry Lipovski, Jamie McVicar & Scott Day

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