There’s a motive Rick Ross known as The Boss. He goals excessive and at all times delivers. At the least that’s his plan for 2024, when the “Wealthy Endlessly” MC says he plans to make good on his 2022 vow to climb Africa’s tallest mountain — and the tallest freestanding mountain on the planet — Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro.
In an Instagram Story on Wednesday (Dec. 13) Rozay mentioned he and his coach are working arduous to get in form to take the trek up one of many world’s Seven Summits in early 2024.
“I discussed on the podcast final 12 months we was climbing to the highest of Mount Kilimanjaro,” Ross mentioned whereas out on an early-morning jogging, referencing his announcement in 2022 on the Full Ship podcast that he deliberate to spend this 12 months getting in form for the problem. “It’s official. Early 2024 it’s taking place. [We’re getting in the] greatest form of our lives [for this]. Promise I gained’t fall out on you muthaf–kas. Promise. And guess what?,” he added between arduous breaths about his plan B ought to issues go sideways. “I swear Imma put on my watch and if I pull that pin on it, in a single hour that helicopter can be there for us.”
The hike doesn’t require technical climbing or mountaineering expertise, however it’s a difficult five-to-nine-day trek by way of 5 local weather zones, through which the trekkers transfer from a rainforest on the base, by way of an alpine desert and as much as a frigid glacial zone on the peak of the dormant volcano, the place there’s 49% much less oxygen than at base camp. Greater than 35,000 adventurers try the trek yearly, with solely two-thirds finishing it as a result of altitude illness and different well being issues. On the podcast, Ross mentioned he deliberate to offer himself 12 days to make it to the highest.
Whereas he’s not coaching, Rozay has been within the studio engaged on his joint album with Meek Mill, Too Good to Be True. The 17-track effort could have the pair joined by Future, DJ Khaled, Fabolous, Teyana Taylor, The-Dream, Jeremih, French Montana and extra on the album, in addition to a reunion of Ross, Mill and Wale on the music “Wonderful Strains.”
Watch Ross coaching for his climb under.