What an absolutely amazing trip! Below you’ll see some pics of the journey – I tried to add commentary as the pictures accumulated, but WordPress somehow won’t allow me to do that, so it’s a string of pictures and videos!
We started at a game reserve for two nights, and went on a walking tour of the 11,000 acres to see some cool animals. Note the pic with the guy with the gun in case a lion or wildebeest came after us…
We were brought to the gate at 11,000 feet and started our 10 day journey. We had 44 porters carrying all our stuff, 3 guides, 2-3 “medical” people, and a great group of 6 of us; Kris and Gabe, a young, fun, adventurous couple from Toronto, Pam, a fun, energetic, hilarious 40 YO exec from Indianapolis who kept us laughing most of the time, Julie and Joe, who are a 50ish YO couple who have lots of experience trail running and are all around fun, passionate people, plus MC (Mountain Cheetah), our guide, Gideon, Chris, Hendry, Matthew (my personal porter) and so many others made this awesome trek!
There was more snow up on Kili than there’s been in more than 20 years, but we all made it to the goal of 19,341. There are actually two other “peaks” that people get to that are around 1,000 feet less than Uhuru, but we made it all the way.
Awesome in every way, and such an accomplishment!
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