Mount Kilimanjaro

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12-20 August 2011

Mount Kilimanjaro

Tanzania

03°S

37°E

700 - 5895m ASL

Prologue - << Start here

Day 1 - To the Mountain

Purple mountain above the clouds

A tiny airport and a distant hotel

Day 2 - Village under the Mountain

New friends and borrowed gear

The village and the waterfall

Meeting more new friends at the hotel

101 ways to die on Kilimanjaro

Day 3 - First leg through Rainforest

The guides and the porters

Polé Polé!

Mandara – The Huts in the Forest

Day 4 - Heathland of the Lost World

Beyond the Treeline

A Cocoon of thick Fog

Horombo – The Huts in the Heathland

Day 5 - The Martian Desert

The Marangu Hotel Route

The Martian Desert

Finding Yourself on the Mountains of Insanity

Kibo – The Huts in the Desert

Day 6 - Life’s Tough at the Top

Breakfast before Midnight

Watching the Boots in front of Me

Jamaican Rocks

Following the Crater Rim

Achievement

It’s all Downhill from Here

Awoken from Frozen Slumber

The Main Route back to Horombo

Day 7 - Conquering the Mountain

How Disabilities only Increase Determination

The Long Descent

They Sat according to Pecking Order

Final Farewells

Epilogue

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