Jeff Gardner Climbs Mount Everest. Sorta.

Ok, peeps, the challenge is on! What is it? To climb Mount Everest, just like that famous Kiwi of years gone by. Of course, to avoid that pesky death problem, I'll be instead climbing this little mount rising up from the South Pacific 38 times in fifty days. Which is pretty much the same thing, elevation wise. Ok, maybe I'm not gasping for the rarefied molecules of oxygen at 8800 m, but I will be gasping. And I'm doing it for Homes of Hope, a charity that provides foster care for abused and neglected children, a problem I encounter far too often in the emergency room. So, if you have a soul and don't hate kids (and puppies and baby pandas and all that is good in the world), skip that "cuppa" (or two or three...) and give me some love, in the form of a few Edmund Hillary bills.