Report: Dickey won't cancel mountain climb

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- New York Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey will go ahead with mountain-climbing plans despite the team's objections, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday.

Citing "multiple sources," the newspaper said Dickey won't cancel plans to ascend Mount Kilimanjaro for charity next week, even though the Mets have warned him they reserve the right to cancel his contract if he is injured.

The knuckleballer is scheduled to receive $4.5 million in 2012 -- the second year of his two-year $7.8 million deal with the Mets.

Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson told The Wall Street Journal the Mets have tried to talk the 37-year-old Dickey out of the climb, which he is performing for the Bombay Teen Challenge, a charity that helps victims of sex trafficking.

Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa at 19,341 feet above sea level.