For two years, Bobby McLaughlin ’89 planned and prepared to scale Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. McLaughlin, who donated a kidney in 2019, dreamed of summiting the tallest mountain on the African continent with a group of organ donors to show the world what a living kidney donor can still do.

This was the start of DRY Botanical Bubbly, now a multimillion-dollar beverage company selling sparkling,…