If you happened to catch the Women’s Issue last year, you may have remembered the story of Anna Curry, a 29-year-old Birmingham attorney who set out to climb Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro. If you don’t remember, here’s a snippet:

Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain on the continent of Africa. Straddling the border between Kenya and Tanzania, it rises more than 19,000 feet above mean sea level at its highest point, Uhuru Peak. It’s a difficult hike for anyone, but especially if you stand only four feet and five inches tall.

On Sept. 23, 29-year-old Birmingham attorney Anna Curry will embark on a nine-day expedition to climb Kilimanjaro. Her endeavor is complicated by the fact that she has a rare genetic disorder called osteogenesis imperfecta, or OI. That disorder is responsible for her short stature, and it causes Curry’s bones to break with ease.

“OI is a weird disease,” Curry says. “Anything can cause a break. You can trip over a crack in the sidewalk and just stumble and not fall, and still break a femur. Or you could fall out of a tree and be perfectly fine. I’ve done both,” she says, laughing.

Anna has now begun her climb, and is keeping us up to date via her blog. Mark reports that Anna’s sustained a blister and had some complications due to her altitude sickness medication, but is still going!

If you’d like to donate to the OI Foundation on behalf of Anna and her father, Ashley (who is joining her on the Kili expedition), you are encouraged to do so here.

Keep it up, Anna.