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Starla Hilliard-Barnes gets ready to use the zip line at Whitefish Mountain Resort. Zip-lining is one of a dozen sporting activities offered through Moving Forward Adaptive Sports. Starla was paralyzed in a 2009 hit-and-run accident in downtown Kalispell, and was reinjured in a vehicle accident in 2015.

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Lakeside paraplegic aims to summit Mount Kilimanjaro
December 15, 2019 4 a.m.

Lakeside paraplegic aims to summit Mount Kilimanjaro

Some say Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest peak on the African continent, earned its name from a Bantu phrase meaning “we failed to climb it.”