Well its nearly Christmas 2009, and we have been back in the land of commerce and capuchino for 8 weeks now.. Its difficult to sum up what this expedition has meant to us, as much of it is in feelings, feelings for people, feelings for places and feelings for moments in time when we were just one with everything around us. Could the climb have been made easier.. well.. physically and mentally yes.. as was shown with one of the other UK groups getting 15 people t...

We have just finished our third and last safari At Lake Manyara and are all thinking of home. Our Uhuru Peak summiteers of Ian, Andrew, Joe, Brownie, Stella Point summiteer Fethy and Gilmans Point summiteers of Pete and Kathleen have lived a dream x

Yesterday evening at Birman Tented Camp next to the Maasai villages was very cool. Roar of lion at midnight and thinking on our day at Tarangire National Park and The Great Rift Valley Escarpment with Elephant, Giraffe, Ostrich Zebra Wilderbeast, What a day now off to Ngorongoro Crater x

Have just found out that texting the web site, which we are doing it only accepts the first 160 characters!!!!! So will update the site which 'stuff what i wrote' on return x

Yes, will finish story of climb later. So the highlights since getting down from the mountain was the luxury of a 11km hike to the next camp which we reached as the sun went down. We woke on day 7 to a view across the clouds from Horombo hut. Then it was a 20 km hike down to Marangu Gate, and our certificates for reaching the top of Kilimanjaro showing either Uhuru Peak 5895m, or Stella Point 5756m, or Gilman's Point 5685m, the three summit points. Day 8 to com...