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In 2021, Renick Odede, a 35-year-old Kenyan who lives in Nairobi, got interested in climbing mountains after watching a documentary about the sport. He started by climbing the Ngong Hills near his home and began to prepare to climb Mount Kenya, the country's highest mountain, and Africa's second highest, which rises to a height of 5,199 meters.

Nobody mentioned the dangers of altitude sickness. Odede was just told that climbing was a case of following the orders of the mountain guides. He remembers feeling on top of the world when he made it to the summit of Mount Kenya in March 2022, where he promised himself that his next challenge would be to climb Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain.

"At the time, I did not know when I would go to Tanzania to make the climb because the trip costs money, and I had to work to raise the funds," said Odede, who works at a bank in Nairobi, Kenya's capital.