Mont Blanc Challenge Seventy-five miles of hiking in 8 days with approximately 23,000 ft of ascent? This was our Mont Blanc Challenge. I calculated the aggregate ascent to be greater than Mt. Kilimanjaro. It would be more like scaling a Himalayan Annapurna. A challenge indeed but I lived to tell the tale... At 15,781 feet, Mont Blanc, is … [Read more...]
Recollections of D-Day
"Wave upon wave of heavy aircraft, have been flying over the house. Something important must be happening." So wrote my mother on the morning of June 6, 1944. She was in London with my two grandmothers, uncle and family dog. My father was on a troop-ship bound for Egypt. Neither of them knew his destination. Family Wartime History My mother's … [Read more...]
