August 28-September 8 My experience in Pediatric Oncology these last two weeks was absolutely unbelievable despite me having strange things going on with my health. My first week was a weird week for me because I was having some serious…
The Safari Journey On the Way to Safari 25/08/2017 I literally can not contain my excitement to be going on the safari! Today is finally the day! My favorite animal in the entire world is an elephant or in Swahili…
To catch everyone up, Thailand is so wonderful. I feel very at home here, and am so grateful for the community and support system that I have found. I feel more at home at Urban Light as well! The staff…
LUMOS Final Report: Sean Grossnickle Senegal 2017 Every time I try to put words to my Lumos experience, I feel as if I do injustice to what I felt and saw. I can put it into numbers: 19 loans…
The Great White Mountain. Kilima Njaro. Ol’doinyo’oibor. The Roof of Africa. No mountain captures the imagination quite like Africa’s tallest, the biggest and baddest of literally hundreds of volcanic peaks and craters and mounds that speckle East Africa. More accurately,…
My guide would alternately march ahead of me to set a brisk pace up the ashen volcanic scree and fall far behind me to let me dance alone through the craggy landscape, as he knew I liked to do. He…
This is the story of a permit, or permits, or rather dozens of different forms and files and flagrant red tape that I attempted to navigate to shoot a documentary in Tanzania. It’s a very long story, but I’ll try…
For anyone growing up under Kilimanjaro, the inimitable snow-capped peak rising from the Kenyan and Tanzanian plains, there is a second mountain, literally in the shadow of it’s greater cousin. This peak, though little known outside of the area, cuts…
After a little over two weeks in Tanzania I’ve returned to Nairobi, having successfully bagged (and filmed) the other two major peaks on my agenda: Mt. Meru, and that most auspicious of African climbs, Mt. Kilimanjaro. While in Tanzania I…
. August 15th I’m sitting outside with the sun shining on me as it begins to set. This Saturday is coming to an end and as it’s ending I’m reflecting on these last 2 weeks that I had at the…