A father makes his way to the roof of Africa in memory of his son, a peacemaker.
Spreading ashes like seeds of peace.
This was more then climbing a mountain with a camera in hand, this was documenting a journey. A pilgrimage of remembrance of the work and stories of a peacemaker and prankster MJ Sharp.
12 hikers on a journey to remember and discover the impact an active peacemaker has in this world. The ripples of his life and death revealed themselves through out this 8 days of walking and talking.
The thing about hiking is that there's really nothing else to do other then walking and talking and breathing. It's meditative. It creates space.
I never met him, yet MJ has had a huge impact on my own life. He is an active peacemaker and Anabaptist and not afraid to go where no one else wants to go, a risk taker.
Short Film Seeds of peace
The dusty road leading us to the starting gate
Porters weighing their packs
John making his way up through the rainforest on the first day
Path through the rainforest
Fred Kniss reflecting at the first camp
Sun going down after the first day of Hiking
Serge Lunglee, His kilimanjaro hat
Westly ready for the morning
The first sight
The Approach across the plain
Riley Swartzendruber, finding a distracting lizard on the way to Kilimanjaro
Camp 2, The view of a lifetime
Blocking out the sun to see the screen
Rainbow as a storm goes across the mountain
Looking at the rainbow
At about 2 am on summit night. Looking back down at the rest of the hikers headlamps and across the valley and the city lights of Arusha
Spreading MJ's ashes on the summit