“Honestly, when he first told me about his desire to tackle Kilimanjaro, I didn’t even know where to put it on a map,” Thionvillois Matthieu Marinelli admits. “He” is Abdellatif Tair, osteopath from Thionville, 58, with whom he runs. Clarification: Abdel, suffering from a degenerative disease, retinitis pigmentosa, is blind. “I saw well until I was 18, then it got worse until I was plunged into complete darkness today,” he explains without the slightest form of pathos. “I wanted to take up a challenge and Matthieu, who I’ve known since he was a child, was the ideal person to…
