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AFTER three days hike to the base camp at Kibo, and spending most of the night climbing the steep scree slope up the side of the crater in subzero temperatures, watching the sunrise from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro made the whole experience very worthwhile. The summit straddled the edge of the crater. Apart from the climbers there was no life up here. It was a barren desert of rock surrounded by the glacial remnants of a thick ice cap that is expected to completely disappear over the next twenty years. I had reached the summit. Now there was a long way to climb back down to civilisation. Blog from today: Trek from today: |
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