Mt Kilimanjaro

We met met my friend Erik in Arusha on July 7 and headed for the mountain the next day. For four days we trekked up the Machame route towards the summit trail. Hardly roughing it, we had 14 porters, 2 cooks and 2 guides to assist our fragile western bodies up the mountain. Being served on the mountain was a bit hard to take after canoeing in the great white north recently, but in the end the crew helped us up an incredible amount of elevation (19800 ft)!

Our total group was five people and we all summited on July 12 at 7AM after 7 hours of final night ascent. Great feeling to go down afterwards!

The trip was amazing despite the incredible number of other hikers on the mountain... Try Mt Kenya for more remote challenge!