PHS Alum Marks 50th Birthday on Top of the World

Photos Courtesy of John Armato

Pottstown High School alum Gentry Khile Brownie, Class of 1986, reached the top of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro to mark his 50th birthday.

Blogger's Note: The following was provided by John Armato.

Pottstown High School graduate Gentry Khile Brownie used some of his Old School Trojan Tough Pottstown Pride to achieve a lifelong goal.

He went to the mountain, that's Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest free standing mountain in the world and he undertook the challenge in the same way he became an outstanding high school wrestler.

His goal was to reach the top on his 50th birthday. 

"Goal accomplished" he said.

"Making it to the top and coming over that snowy peak while the sun was rising on the start of my 50th year was so deep...so exhilarating ...so exhausting..so humbling...so triumphant ...it all hit me at once....whoa...it was an amazing way to start the next chapter of my life," Brownie said.

"Gentry as a student athlete and as adult, you give us reason to say Proud to be from Pottstown," Armato said.

Gentry Khile Brownie, right, on top of Mount Kilimanjaro with his fellow climbers.