AIDS awareness month, Dec 2008
"History will judge us on how we respond to the AIDS emergency in Africa.....whether we stood around with watering cans and watched while a whole continent burst into flames.....or not." Bono, 2002
"No matter how high the mountain there is always a way up!"
It was this belief which enabled Deshun to take her childhood dream of climbing Mount Everest and turn it into reality.
As one of South Africa's top speakers, facilitators and trainers, her climbing and other adventures, sport, community involvement, etc, have taught her that
- summits happen in stages
- on a mountain every day is a summit
- success is when you get back down - ALIVE!
Welcome to her website! We hope you'll keep visiting for information on current projects as well as details of Deshun's fascinating talks in which she shares her perspective on being a businessperson, mountaineer, a team member (often the only woman on the climbing team) and, most importantly, a woman.
Erik Weihenmayer, on summits
"I think a summit isn't even a place on a mountain at all. A summit, to me, is a symbol.
It's a symbol that, with the force of our minds and our bodies and our souls and with the power of [our] 2 small hands, we an transform our lives into something miraculous.
And when we join our hands to those around us we can do even better than transforming our own lives, we can transform the very face of the earth!" 
He is also an author, motivational speaker, skydiver, long distance cyclist, marathon runner, skier, mountaineer, rock climber, ice climber - truly an extraordinary man whose life mirrors exactly his quote above.
"Our deepest fear..."
Our deepest fear is not that we're inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we're powerful beyond measure. It is our light and not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?". Actually, who are you not to be. You're a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others will not feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. As you let your light shine, you subconsciously give others the right to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
7 Summits climbing project
Deshun has embarked on the exciting "7 Summits" project - a bid to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents. The project launched in April 2007 when She led an international group of trekkers to Everest's South Base Camp in Nepal and she successfully summited Mount Elbrus in Aug 2007 and Kilimanjaro, Jan 2008.
