"This is not a story about weight loss," says a woman in the introduction to the documentary film "Kili Big," which includes Minneapolis resident, Kathy McCready.
"This is about twenty women, coming together, and doing a physically challenging thing outside of our comfort zone with other like-bodied people."
The women who call themselves the Curvy Kili Crew, spent more than a year preparing to climb the fourth highest mountain in the world. While most people enjoy the outdoors, those in larger bodies don't always experience equal treatment.
Writer, Bissa Myles who climbed all 19,387 feet of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, reaching the peak explains. "We would get looks and sometimes people try cheering you on thinking it's about weight loss, when it's not."
Myles says most women in the crew are accepting of their bodies.
"When we created the Facebook group, that was the number one were rule, we could not talk about weight loss. So that's really what it is," said Myles. "It's just women who wanted to hike together and have other women who look like them."
You can see the women take on nature battling unpredictable weather, altitude sickness, and facing their doubts in a 90 minute feature film, "Kili Big." The movie debuts on a new and free, streaming service Chicken Soup for the Soul on Thursday, Aug. 18.