12 year old Rowan Garel and his dad reached the summit of Victoria Peak around 2:30 this afternoon. The first thing he did was call his mother - yes they did get Digicell service at 3,700 feet - and told her that he was very excited and very tired.
The team summited in just two days - which is a lot quicker than expected and after a short rest at the top of Belize, they started their descent.
Tonight they are camped out at the 12 k mark and are expected to be all the way back down sometime between tomorrow evening and Sunday morning.
That's when Rowan will be hosted at a welcome back picnic at the base.
Rowan is the first blind child to summit Victoria Peak. And so while he goes down in the record book, he's doing the climb for charity, specifically for the Belize Council For the Visually impaired and its summer camp programme. So you can send your donations or drop them off at the BCVI office on Princess Margaret drive or contribute to their Belize Bank account 71096, or you can go to bcvi.org and make a donation online.
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