By Joel Batzofin
ISBN-10: 1512057355
ISBN-13: 9781512057355
Dr. Joel Batzofin used to be born in Africa, yet he’d by no means thought of mountain climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. As a doctor with a thriving ny fertility drugs perform, he’d by no means meditated mountaineering any mountain, less a summit in Tanzania. but if he agreed to hitch his daughter Tammy on a trek up the height, he launched into the best event of his lifestyles.
Batzofin and Tammy quick realized to understand the conveniences of domestic. The terrain used to be tough. Their eclectic touring get together incorporated relatives, neighbors, path publications, and a few disagreeable tourists.
Personalities occasionally clashed, however the appealing, harmful nation-state and the impoverished, hopeful local community woke up Batzofin’s spirit in methods he couldn’t have anticipated. techniques of his mentally and bodily disabled brother, his many hopeful fertility sufferers, and the faces of the negative teenagers round him led Batzofin to donate his scientific strength and monetary assets to a small rural health facility. while he eventually reached the summit, Batzofin learned his point of view on existence had replaced forever.
Through his memoir, One Step at a Time, Batzofin stocks his Kilimanjaro adventure, from actual hardships to philosophical musings. He hopes to encourage others to discover the strong classes that lurk underneath unforeseen challenges.
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