{"id":22835,"date":"2026-01-14T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22835\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:24:10","slug":"huntingdon-father-and-son-in-mount-kilimanjaro-charity-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22835\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntingdon father and son in Mount Kilimanjaro charity climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Tony and James Quinn, aged 60 and 21, respectively, reported reaching the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, which is 5,895 metres high, on Monday January 12.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This expedition began with a delay of 24 hours due to snow-related flight hold-ups in London and Amsterdam.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Once the climb was underway, it took the Hemingford Grey pair six days to complete, facing temperatures of 25\u00b0C at the bottom plummeting to -10\u00b0C towards the summit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>&#8216;Hemingford Grey dad and son duo &#8216;finally stand on the top of Africa&#8217; (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This feat could help to support burns victims with the duo raising funds for BFIRST, a UK-registered charity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The charity, whose chair (elect) is Hinchingbrooke Hospital&#8217;s Mr Anthony Barabas, a consultant plastic and hand surgeon, equips surgeons in low-to-middle-income countries with skills in reconstructive plastic surgery.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Tony and James Quinn after reaching the top of Mount Kilimanjaro (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tony and James aim to benefit the burns unit at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi in the mountain&#8217;s foothills.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their efforts have already resulted in a commendable sum of \u00a32,000, with all donations going directly to the charity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Any donations can be made via www.givey.com\/tonyandjamesquinn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony and James Quinn, aged 60 and 21, respectively, reported reaching the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, which is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[152],"class_list":{"0":"post-22835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-tanzania"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}