Most people would blame the Mombasa heat for skipping workouts. Ordinarily, you will be wiping sweat that formed before the warm-up even begins. However, Morris Ongere has lived in that heat his entire life, and somehow, he has carved out a physique that defies both the weather and the passage of time.
At forty-nine, with his fiftieth birthday looming, he has remained what the young men at Nyali Beach call “fit like a dhow sail”— taut, purposeful, and seemingly defying the natural laws of aging.