Polarmax: Even Our Banner Can Keep You Warm

Oct. 28, 2011 - PRLog -- West End, NC (10/28/2011) – A group of climbers raising money for the American Foundation for Children With AIDS found a new use for a Polarmax banner on a recent trip up Mt. Kilimanjaro. After a fall during the decent, which left one team member with a badly dislocated shoulder, a Polarmax banner was used for warmth and as a wind block when the victim began to go into shock.

Polarmax supplied base layers to the fourteen member international team for their fundraising ascent in October. They had also sent along a banner for photo opportunities, before it was repurposed into an emergency blanket.

“No matter how many times we tried, we couldn’t get the shoulder back in,” said Tanya Weaver the executive director of AFCA. “Finally, a medic came, but he couldn’t reduce it either. So we had to evacuate her, which meant a grueling “run” down the mountain carried by porters on a stretcher that looked like it came straight out of M*A*S*H. Because she was going into shock, I threw all my clothes on her, and we placed the Polarmax banner on her and wrapped her in it. She sighed and told me how it helped keep out the cold wind.”

The trip was a fundraiser for the American Foundation for Children with AIDS, a non-profit organization that helps HIV+ children, their guardians and HIV+ pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa who have no other access to aid. They do so by providing critical AIDS and related medications, medical supplies and equipment nutritional supplements, and emergency supplies.

Polarmax is a proud supplier of the American Foundation for Children with AIDS and wishes the climber a speedy recovery.

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