Today was a pretty big day for Nicolai. He was featured on the front page of the Boston Globe, was interviewed on NPRs All Things Considered by Michele Norris, and met the Founder and President of the Free Wheelchair Mission at a dinner gathering thrown in his honor. The Globe is reporting that Nicolai is the youngest disabled climber to summit Kilimanjaro after checking with officials in Tanzania. NPR reported that I am an accomplished professional mountain climber (who knew, I always thought I was a professional engineering manager). Don Schoendorfer, pictured here with his low-cost wheelchair design is an MIT mechanical engineering graduate who founded the Free Wheelchair Mission and whose work has made it possible for nearly a quarter of a million disabled poor to receive the gift of mobility.
