They flew into Africa at night, so Chris Dodgion and Barb Zarebczan did not see Mount Kilimanjaro ? described by Ernest Hemingway in a classic short story as “wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun” ? until the next day. Only one in their party, Itoro Elijah, had landed in the daylight, and the mountain made its impact. She called it amazing. Dodgion, 31, and Zarebczan, 29, are residents in general surgery at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. In late February, they were part of a group of nine people ? two other UW surgery residents, a UW nurse practitioner, and some friends and parents ? who went to Africa intent on climbing to the 19,340-foot summit of Kilimanjaro.
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