October 3rd, 2011
Fourteen hours after leaving high camp and it’s all done. Great weather, great climb, great summit and even better descent. You can’t believe how much thicker the air is at 10,000 ft. when compared to what you’re breathing at 19,340 ft. World of difference and so much warmer, too. A beer or two, a nice meal and it’s pretty much ‘the sleep of the dead’. After awakening, it’s just a few short downhill hours through lush rainforest to arrive at the Park entrance at the Mweka Gate. For now, all the stress of the summit day is gone and sleep is in order. Congratulations, team.”
~Phil Ershler
Pole Pole (slowly slowly) around the crater rim to Uhuru Point, The Roof of Africa. (Photo by Adam Angel)