Now this is something you don’t hear about every day!
A schoolteacher and a personal trainer from Cairns have taken a wheelbarrow to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
Tabitha Knox-Carlson and Lisa Conyers have just returned home after pushing, pulling and shouldering a bright-red wheelbarrow to the top of Africa's tallest mountain.
"It definitely was the most gruelling thing I've ever done in my life," Ms Knox-Carlson told the ABC. "You know, dizzy, sleepy, legs feel like wood, vomiting."
The idea came about when the women entered the annual Great Wheelbarrow Race held in the Atherton Tablelands.
Competitors push a wheelbarrow 140km from Mareeba to Chillagoe over three days, in a nod to early European settlers who often used similar carts to carry their earthly possessions from town to town in search of work.
However that was a doddle compared to what they had to do to get a wheelbarrow up to the top of Kili.
The pair sourced a wheelbarrow with an extra-large tyre, and found three local Tanzanian guides to help them on their odyssey.
"Some of the time we had the wheelbarrow over our heads doing a shoulder press and a step up these big, steep rocks," Ms Conyers said.
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