December 28, 2012 The Kilimanjaro team is back at the Keys Hotel. Hot showers, food and clothes drying were the order of the day. Soon, they will be flying out to the Serengeti and beginning the first of 3 days on safari. Of course, the only way to do a Kilimanjaro trip is to do […]
December 27, 2012 Received a short email from Jangbu today. All it said was ‘Made It – The Whole Team’. He followed up with a phone call saying that he was standing at Uhuru, the true summit, and with all the team members. They threaded the needle on this one. Weather didn’t make it easy […]
December 26, 2012 The following email from Jangbu over on Kili greeted us this morning: “We pulled into Barafu camp by 11:30 this morning. Everyone is doing really well. Like every day, we got rained on a bit, but not too bad. Had a great lunch at 12:45 pm and doing early dinner at 5:00 […]
December 25, 2012 Christmas at Karanga. The team’s at about 13,500 ft for Christmas. With the new snow on Kili, they certainly are having a white Christmas, at least higher up. Here’s the email Ang Jangbu provided Christmas morning: “We are at Karanga Camp. Pulled in to camp at 12:15 pm, just before the big […]
December 24, 2012 “We are at Barranco camp. We started with a decent morning but it started to rain as we were approaching Lava Junction and rained most of the afternoon. Rains have left us now but still a heavy mist. Everyone did extremely well pulling into camp. Couple of minor headaches but no major […]
December 23, 2012 Ang Jangbu Sherpa called to report that the team had a good day moving up to Shira Plateau camp, at about 12,500. Now they are above the forest line, moving into the “zone of weird plants†that grow at high altitudes near the Equator (Kili is about 3 degrees south latitude). Sounds […]
December 21, 2012 Just in from Ang Jangbu and team on the Christmas Kilimanjaro trip: “We had a good start this morning. Everyone did really well and reached Machame camp just before 4 pm. Perfect temperature hiking up today – cloudy, drizzled a bit but it didn’t pour on us and it wasn’t too hot. […]
December 21, 2012 Ang Jangbu Sherpa sent us a team photo of his crew from the courtyard at the Keys Hotel this morning. The Christmas Kilimanjaro team has now arrived and going through final prep/packing in anticipation of heading up the mountain in the morning. Pretty cool way to spend Christmas and New Year’s. The […]
October 31, 2012 More Oxygen Please! By Clarissa Morford It was about 4:30AM, and I was on the side of a dusty mountain at 17,000 feet with chilled feet and tingling hands, feeling generally miserable. This was my first time above 14,410ft., and I was really starting to feel the altitude. What was I doing […]
October 3, 2012 Chris just called in from camp near the Ngorongoro Crater. This is their last night. They’ll be driving back to Arusha tomorrow, getting in some final shopping and having an early supper before their flight. Here’s what he had to say: “During this morning’s game drive, our safari guides delivered the highlight […]
