Fifty-seven-year-old Irishman Robbie Dowling summited Mount聽Kilimanjaro with an 88-pound bathtub, dubbed Sheila,聽strapped to his back, . Dowling completed the 30-mile trek to the 18,652-foot-high summit to raise money and awareness for his charity,聽, which he started to support health facilities along the Amazon River.
鈥淭he final shove was climbing a 90-degree slope on moving silt,鈥 Dowling told Red Bull. 鈥淚 had a 3 a.m. start, no sleep, and was finding it hard to keep down food at high altitude after days of pushing myself beyond endurance. I was on this slope for five hours. Each step was a miracle. My eyesight in my left eye was going, and my lungs were unable to get oxygen. I was stopping every five minutes for water.鈥
Dowling floated down the Amazon River with Sheila in 2007.聽He鈥檚 planning to pull the tub across the salt flats of Bolivia this October to continue raising money for his charity. His ultimate goal is to build a new medical center for children on the Amazon.