In the end of February 1969, a group of seven blind climbers, along with their four sighted companions, completed their painstaking journey to the
summit of Kilimanjaro. They undertook an almost impossible task, fought their own weaknesses and extreme climatic conditions - anyway, these seven exceptional people gained the summit in Tanzania, saving themselves heroically on the pages of history. It was not easy at all, one could say that it was extremely difficult, it took 9 hours for this group to cover the last 1500 meters, they had to face incredibly strong winds, gigantic frost and generally conditions that ordinary people are not completely adapted to. The originator of the whole trip was John Wilson, founder of the Sightsavers charity organization. The goal of this project was to create a new image of blind people in Africa, and to prove that properly trained blind people have mental stamina and physical endurance to achieve their goals. Every participant of the expedition attended a demanding training program, which included climbing a rope, camping at night and mastering climbing equipment. All African newspapers lived through the expedition, reporting the smallest details of this amazing event. To this day, three pairs of destroyed shoes of the expedition participants are presented in the Ugandan National Museum.