Rotary’s historic climb in Sydney
During Friday’s world record-breaking Sydney Harbour bridge climb, Rotary members raised enough money to protect 240,000 kids from polio.
Despite the physically grueling four-hour trek up and down the bridge’s storied steel arches, the 340 participants kept their good spirits and stood side-by-side waving 278 flags.
«When the helicopters were going around, you just felt like one great big nation,» says Graeme Davies, district governor of the Rotary Club of Kincumber in Australia.
The massive turnout eclipsed Oprah Winfrey’s world-record climb in 2011 when she summited the bridge alongside 315…