Kidney donor climbs Kilimanjaro, meets transplant surgeon on flight home

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Two years after donating a kidney to her neighbor’s daughter, Holly Fisk summited one of the world’s tallest peaks and had a chance encounter at 30,000 feet.

The Anchorage family nurse practitioner summited the 19,341-foot Kilimanjaro — the tallest peak in Africa — two years after donating a kidney to her neighbor’s daughter.

March is National Kidney Month and upwards of 100,000 Americans are waiting for a kidney transplant, making it the most “in demand” organ in the country…

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