In June 2009, a 10-member Roadmonkey expedition team summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, at 19,345 feet the highest point in Africa, to complete the adventure portion of the Tanzania adventure philanthropy expedition.

Below are two 3-minute videos, professionally shot & edited by two expedition team members: Steve and Joanie Wynn of Bayside Entertainment, based in Marin County, Calif.

The first video shows the Roadmonkey crew during our 6-day ascent of mighty Kilimanjaro:

The second 3-minute video portrays our post-climb volunteer project: refurbishing an impoverished school outside of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s capital, and installing a sustainable filtration system to allow the children, many of who have been orphaned by East Africa’s AIDS epidemic, to drink the groundwater at the school. We also installed affordable, clean-burning gas stoves to replace more expensive & environmentally unfriendly wood charcoal cook barrels.

When we arrived at the school, some of the students, dressed in their uniforms, performed a lovely, cheorgraphed dance in one of the classrooms:

In June 2010, Roadmonkey will return to Tanzania, to climb glacier-capped Kilimanjaro once again and then, in the village of Babati, southwest of the mountain, build a fish pond for a new school.

Join us on this challenging, gratifying and memory-making adventure philanthropy expedition.

If anyone knows how to swap the goofy “intro” image of Paul on the screen above with a different, less dorky image from this same interview, please call +1-917-319-8070 immediately.

Thank you.

Vietnam 2008 -- Cycling the northwest

Vietnam 2008 -- Building a playground at an orphanage