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Alpenglow Adventures is Offering the World's First and Only Hiking Trips for Children and Adults Who Cannot Walk to the Bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park and to the Highest Uhuru Summit on Mount Kilimanjaro in Two of the World's Most Famous National Parks for the Greatest Cause.

Alpenglow Adventures is an Easter Seal 501C3 Not For Profit Organization. All net income from all Alpenglow Adventures trips goes to provide children and adults with disabilities a fun 6-day Special Needs camp during the summertime at Easter Seals Camp KYSOC in Carrollton, Kentucky. Camp KYSOC, was built and opened in 1961 as the world’s first de-centralized camp for children and adults with disabilities. It is a facility of the Kentucky Easter Seals Cardinal Hill Healthcare System (the largest rehabilitative healthcare system provider in Kentucky), one of the best rehabilitative healthcare systems in America. In 2002 and 2003 its Flagship hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, the Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital, was named twice a 50 Best Hospitals in the United States by U. S. News and World Report.

Alpenglow Adventures has begun the World’s First Adventure Program of its kind for those who cannot walk and it extends a huge welcome to all able bodied hikers and trekkers to join our trips and to participate with us to support our effort. Jim Ebert, with the support and encouragement from the Cardinal Hill Healthcare System, has begun the very first offered Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona hiking adventure trip offerings in the world for those with disabilities who cannot walk and the very first offered ascents to the Uhuru summit on Mount Kilimanjaro for those who cannot walk, or who cannot walk very well. We are using a Trailrider for the narrow trail above the 15,520 foot Kibo Hut on the Marangu route, and on the Grand Canyon National Park narrow trail descent to the bottom for anyone who cannot walk. We are also using the Kili-kart, which allows each participant to help with the pushing and the braking of the wheels so they can contribute toward their adventure goal. We are the only one in the world in possession of both the Trailrider and the Kili-kart trail transport devices for use on our trips and we are the only one in the world offering this service to anyone in the world who cannot walk, or not walk very well.

Jim Ebert’s goal for Alpenglow Adventures: To offer all of the same world classic hikes that most all able bodied hikers might strive to hike during their lifetime, i.e. the hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, the hike to the Havasu Campground located 10 miles deep within the Grand Canyon on the Havasupai Indian Reservation between the Havasu and Mooney Falls, the hike to the summit of the Uhuru summit on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the hut to hut Routeburn and Milford hikes in New Zealand, the Inca Trail Hike to Machu Picchu in Peru, the hike from the city of Chamonix in France to the village of Zermatt in Switzerland, the circum-navigation hike of Mount Kenya in Kenya, the scenic village to village hikes that will allow the crossing of the spectacular Dolomites in Italy as well as the Bernese Oberlund in Switzerland, the most spectacular day hikes to mountain huts and lodges deep within the incredibly scenic Canadian Rockies in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, and many of the most spectacular hikes in the Cordillera Blanca in Peru, South America to mention only a few.

Jim Ebert, Founder and Trip Leader, brings unmatched qualifications and leadership for each trip.
Any trip is only as safe as the trip leader who is leading your trip. Alpenglow Adventures is providing the first adventure hiking service in the world that is offering two of the world’s greatest and most famous National Parks for those who cannot walk. We are proud to have one of the world’s most experienced and safest mountain guides, expeditionary leaders, wilderness guides, trips leader in charge of each Alpenglow Adventure trip.

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Recent Accomplishments

First Historical Trail Descent To The Bottom Of The Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: Jim Ebert and his Alpenglow Adventures became the very first in the world to descend by trail to the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park and to the Phantom Ranch with the very first documented person who cannot walk on November 28, 2008, (this historic trip involved a 13 year old girl from Shelbyville, Kentucky, and her name is Skylar Cannon), and it is the very first to begin offering six-day hiking trips using the Kili-kart and the Trailrider to anyone who cannot walk, or not walk very well in order to transport them to the bottom by way of the spectacular Bright Angel Trail to the Bright Angel Campground on the bottom, and to hike to Ribbon Falls and to Trout fish in the Colorado River and the Bright Angel Creek.

We are offering Four, Six-Day Trips in March, 2010: $1,100.

First Historical Ascent To Uhuru Peak On Mount Kilimanjaro in Mount Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania: Jim Ebert and his Alpenglow Adventures became the very first in the world to take the very first person who cannot walk, who needed assistance the entire way, to the highest Uhuru Summit on 19,340 Ft. Mount Kilimanjaro, (this historic trip involved a 34 year old computer programming engineer who has his Masters Degree in Anthropology from Harvard, and his name is Juan Martin Botero), and it is the very first in the world to begin offering 9-day climbing/safari trips to Mount Kilimanjaro’s highest Uhuru Summit to anyone who cannot walk or not walk very well. We will be using the Kili-kart (which allows for participant participation by pushing and braking on the wheels) and the Trailrider. After each climb, a full day will be spent in each of Tanzania’s greatest safari game parks, i.e., Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire National Park and Lake Manyara National Park. We are offering eight Nine-day trips in 2009 and 2010.

Cost: $3,795

National Top Rope Instructor Certification Course

Jim Ebert founded this Nation’s first National Top Rope Instructor Certification Course in 1973. Since then, Jim has developed it into the Nation’s largest, the longest operated, and the safest top rope instructor certification course in the Western Hemisphere. Jim has personally trained and top rope instructor certified over 3,600 course graduates in 310 seven-day courses that were taught at Devil’s Lake State Park, Wisconsin. All of Jim’s 3,600 certified top rope instructors have maintained a perfect 36 year safety record while working with the general public in all 50 states without a single reported accident. Jim Ebert has trained and certified 3,600 top rope instructors which is 3X more certified instructors than the total of the entire nation’s other top rope instructor certifying bodies, combined. The course fee is $735. This fee all goes to help fund a child or an adult with a disability to attend a special needs 6-day camp session at Easter Seals Camp Kysoc during the summertime.

Course Dates: August 1-7, 2009. April 17-23, April 24-29, May 1-7, 2010

Upcoming Trips

Trail Descent to Bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park: Alpenglow Adventures is offering the very first 6-day trips during March 2010 to take individuals who cannot walk to the bottom and back out of the Grand Canyon National Park. These are the very first trips of their kind in Grand Canyon National Park history. We are offering the very first most exhilarating hiking trail descent to the bottom with a camping and fishing experience while on the bottom of the Grand Canyon that can now be enjoyed for the very first time by those with disabilities who cannot walk and able bodied individuals alike who are welcomed to participate with us. Along with our Mount Kilimanjaro ascents, this is the greatest challenge adventure trip in the world for those with disabilities who cannot walk. Each Grand Canyon trip will accept three people to participate with us who cannot walk so they can share this experience with each other. Each week, three individuals who cannot walk will be pushed and pulled by Grand Canyon National Park employees and by college students from various Arizona colleges and Universities both down and back out of the Grand Canyon National Park using both the Trailrider and two Kili-karts, that will cover over 18 miles round-trip and one vertical mile of descent to the bottom while they carefully lift and lower each individual up and over 6,000 trail erosion logs and up and over many hundreds of rocks each way. There is no challenge in the Western Hemisphere that is more spectacular, or more beautiful than this hiking trip that is being offered to individuals who cannot walk and to those who want to help us. Everyone can accomplish this hike. We will hike very slowly. We will take three individuals who cannot walk and seven other paying trip participants during each trip.

Trip Cost: $1,100.
Trip Dates 2010: March 14-19, March 21-26, March 28-April 2, April 4-9.

Trail Ascent to the Top of Uhuru Summit of Mount Kilimanjaro: Eight 9-day trips are planned to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro's highest 19,340' Uhuru Peak in Tanzania during the fall of 2009 and 2010 that will each take one individual who cannot walk to the highest Uhuru Summit on Mount Kilimanjaro. This is the number one greatest challenge in the world that is being offered to those with disabilities who cannot walk. No other trip challenge is being offered anywhere else in the world that will be more adventurous and scenic, yet completely safe and comfortable. This is a truly WOW, experience!! The porters will push and pull the person with a disability over 25 1/2 miles and 13,340 feet to the summit and then back down using the Kili-kart and the Trailrider. The Kili-kart offers the opportunity for each participant with a disability to provide assistance by pushing or braking on the wheels. Everyone should join us and experience the greatness of this endeavor. We need your support. Anyone who accompanies us to cheer us on will not be held back from reaching the Uhuru summit in the normal 3 ½ days. We will all reach the highest Uhuru summit at that same time. If you hike slowly and stay with Jim, you will be assured of definitely ascending to the highest Uhuru summit.

Trip Cost: $3,795
Trip Dates 2009: November 22-30, December 6-14
Trip Dates 2010: January 10-18, February 7-15, August 8-16, August 22-30, November 21-29, and December 12-20.

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