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Hungarian 11 years old girl on top of Kilimanjaro!
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Anna Happ, Hungarian 11-years-old girl (in 2019) and a 10-years-old Hungarian boy, Laborc Gellért Szemeti (in 2013) became the two youngest to climb Mount Kilimanjaro’s 5895-metre-high summit (Uhuru peak). Both of them are Hungarians.
The girl’s father told to Index that Anna’s childhood dream fulfilled with climbing Africa’s highest peak in Tanzania; she was dedicated from the very first moment.
Anna accomplished the 6-days-long Uhulu climbing journey alongside with his father and a 20-person team. They have done a pre-acclimatization climb tour on Mount Meru, 70 kilometres west of Mount Kilimanjaro to get used the changing climate.
video: tenyek.hu
Anna described her feelings and thoughts on the top like this:
“We were all exhausted when we woke up at the last morning. I have started the day in a perfect mood, thinking that the day was going to be easy. When we got to Stella Point (crater rim at 5756 metres) I was so tired, I hardly could make a step forward. We were climbing with slow steps, so I was cold, and I got tired.
On the top, even though I haven’t expected it, I was crying with happiness. This was my dream since I was three years old, and now I can see that all the fatigue were worth it.”