Kilimanjaro Day 3: Traversing The Great Steppe To A Cathedral Peak, Burning...
REMINDER: I strongly encourage you to click on the panos to see the full enchilada images. Seriously, the views on Kili were almost too epic to capture in a straight 4:3 photo frame, even with wide...
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The Next Morning, Kilimanjaro Covered In Snow, Everest Style DAY 4 HIGHLIGHTS Remember that red mountain with the snow crown last night (yesterday’s post)? I come out of the tent at 5:30am and as the...
View ArticleKilimanjaro Day 5: Buffalo Buffalo, Plus We Do Ourselves Lent (Hill) Way...
Kili – Starlit Morning DAY 5 HIGHLIGHTS I woke up at 0-dark-thirty as usual and waited out the sunrise. The waterfalls cascading down the rocks were the first we’d seen since the Day 1 walks through...
View ArticleKilimanjaro Day 6: African Sunrise, Kenyan Plains, Nuclear Bomb Clouds, and...
African Sunrise On Mt Kilimanjaro DAY 5 HIGHLIGHTS Buffalo Camp, situated above the Kenyan Plains, made for the best morning on Kilimanjaro so far, with unobstructed views of Kilimanjaro swathed in...
View ArticleKilimanjaro Day 7: Upward Bound – The Final Ascent Begins With School Hut
Kilimanjaro Dwarfs Tiny Third Cave Camp DAY 5 HIGHLIGHTS Our night at Third Cave Camp was pristine, with nary a patter of precipitation or wind. There were rock strata about a 50 yards from the camp,...
View ArticleKilimanjaro Day 8-9: Summit Time Is Glacier Time, Earth Curvature, Journey’s End
The Earth is Curved..6:30am Crater Rim Sunrise With Mawenzi and Clouds Below Us THE ADVENTURE ENDS – DAY 8-9 HIGHLIGHTS We woke up at 11pm, mist overhead obscuring the sky, but the temperature wasn’t...
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