We Took NFL Players to the Top of Kilimanjaro | Chris Recaps Conquering Kili

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Chris details his trip to Africa and his successful climb up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. In 2026, the Chris Long Foundation celebrated 10 years of the Conquering Kili climb. The program's goal is to empower current and former athletes, military combat veterans, and clean water advocates to unite for collective impact and better communities by climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and raising funds to build sustainable water wells. Former NFLers like Jason Kelce, Steven Jackson, Rob Ninkovich and more have joined countless former service men and woman and clean water advocates in attempting to summit Kili. On this year's trip, Chris and Nate Boyer were joined by former NFLer Alejandro Villanueva and nine other climbers. Chris and Cowboy Reid recount the climb including the daunting summit night where Alejandro nearly tapped out. By helping us provide reliable access to clean water, you give another person the chance to stay safe, be healthy, and thrive. By sharing what you have, you make the world a better place. If possible, donate here: https://waterboys.org/?form=waterboys (00:00) - Intro (01:30) - History of Conquering Kili (12:00) - Mount Kilimanjaro Recap Have some interesting takes, some codebreaks or just want to talk to the Green Light Crew? We want to hear from you. Call into the Green Light Hotline presented by Zone Nicotine and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open: ‪(202) 991-0723‬ Head to https://nicokick.com/zone and use code GL20 for 20% off at checkout. Check out Green Light's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, where you can catch all the latest GL action: Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are waiting to summit.
0:02.0	It's the hardest part of the climb.
0:04.0	16,000 feet. Hard to be comfortable here. Get over the rim and everybody's hugging each other. And then they panned out and he goes, there was a lot of deceit in getting me up this mountain. I don't want Alejandro Villan wave, but it'd be mad at me. So I'm thinking to myself, like, if he doesn't make it, he's gonna kill me. We set off walking at 1 a.m.
0:22.6	By 3 a.m., there is snow falling sideways, dude.
0:27.6	I have icicle whiskers.
0:31.6	I tell the guys, when the sun comes up, we're good.
0:35.6	Hey, oh, this, seriously you know the sound machines that people put Manjaro Hakuna Matata. Dude, I, I, seriously,
0:55.9	you know the sound machines that people put on to fall asleep, Nolan?
1:00.5	Yes, I use mine.
1:01.6	Honestly, like coming off that trip,
1:03.9	if I could program into my sound machine,
1:07.5	tent zippers,
1:09.2	people speaking Swahili, and what would like like reed snoring a little bit like
1:16.3	i'd be fucking i'd be out like a light dude read was my tent mate um we summoned a killy the
1:24.3	background is uh you know i talk about this ad nauseum know, it's, it's really important to kind of set the backdrop.
1:32.6	Like, I started Water Boys a long time ago.
1:35.6	It's an initiative where we deliver clean water to communities that need it, domestically, internationally.
1:43.4	You know, we do a lot of domestic projects in schools and
1:46.0	you know in appalachian all that stuff and you know single single family wells and that sort of thing
1:51.8	but we also do large solar powered wells in east africa and Tanzania and that honestly the
1:57.7	background story is in 2012 okay i was uh jeff fisher changed my life he changed
2:06.3	my life in a lot of ways he he he breathed a lot of excitement back into football for me he
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