July 13, 2011 Always nice to get the satellite phone call letting us know that another Kilimanjaro trip is off to a good start. First, flights have to go according to plan and all the luggage needs to arrive. No small hurdle in itself. Then, like today, it’s good to know that the team did […]
July 12, 2011 IMG Guide Eric Remza and his second crew of the season have all arrived on schedule in Tanzania. Â All of our local friends and staff are excited to meet the next team of IMG climbers. The group will enjoy a free day today to recover from the long flights. Â They’ll visit the […]
June 26, 2011 IMG guide Eric Remza reports that yesterday the Kili team finished up their safari, and is now headed home. After flying out to Seronera, they had three days of excellent wildlife viewing as they made their way across Serengeti National Park to Ndutu, then via Olduvai gorge to Ngorongoro Crater, and finally […]
June 22, 2011 IMG guide Eric Remza reports that the team made it back to the hotel in Moshi in good shape, and enjoyed their celebration barbeque dinner. After a good night sleep at low altitude, this morning they headed for Arusha, and a flight out to Serengeti. One minute you are in a busy […]
June 20, 2011 Kili summits! IMG guide Eric Remza reports that the team had good weather and conditions today for their ascent of Kilimanjaro, and they were able to make it to Uhuru Peak, the summit of Africa! They left Barafu at about midnight and summited shortly after dawn. They are now on their way […]
June 18, 2011 IMG guide Eric Remza reports by sat phone from Karanga Camp (13,000 feet) that everyone is doing well and the weather has been staying good. Today the team enjoyed one of the most spectacular days of trekking on the trip, as they climbed over the Barrancco Wall and traversed below the famous […]
June 15, 2011 IMG guide Eric Remza reports from Machame Camp at about 10,000 feet on the slopes of Kilimanjaro that the team is all tucked in after dinner, and a good first day of the climb. The weather was good today and they took it nice and slow going up through the forest, and […]
June 14, 2011 IMG guide Eric Remza reports by sat phone from Moshi that the June Kili team has all arrived on schedule. Sounds like the team had to take a longer routing, flying east over Saudi Arabia on the KLM flight from Amsterdam, to avoid the plume from the volcano in Eritrea! Everyone made […]
March 11, 2011 Everybody enjoys a good photo now and again… Check out this beauty taken by Steve Harshbarger while on Safari in 2010. Not a bad way to wrap up a climb of Kilimanjaro!
February 22, 2011 Well, we took a long weekend here at IMG too. Why not; we had great success on Kilimanjaro earlier this month, a couple teams on top of Aconcagua in February, Orizaba summits in Mexico and a great training seminar on Rainier last week, not to mention all of our ice climbers in […]
