"A father and son team are spending the next 14 days hiking Mt. Kilimanjaro in Arusha, Tanzania to raise money for juvenile diabetes.

Matthew R. Weir, director of the division of nephrology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and his son, M. Ryan Weir, a business banking officer for M&T Bank in Towson, began their journey Thursday and plan to finish on Sept. 16."