What a sleep although my body is tired and, man, do all my leg muscles ache? It hurts to wlk down steps, sit down and stand up. It will only last a day or two I am sure.I caught a cold a day or so before the summit so I have been constantly wiping my nose and together with sun, ice glare, dust and anything else you want to throw in the mix, I now am really swollen in my face with blisters on my nose and lips. I look like a Mongolian woman with mumps! A rea...

What a sleep although my body is tired and my leg muscles ache. After breakfast we need to descend to Mweka gates and meet our bus. A good track but again stepping down from rock to rock or step to step was really hard on the knees for the final three hours. Everyone in the group certainly knew what it was like to have bad knees. And do all my leg muscles ache? Hell yes! Nice to know most of the team feel the same. We completed our final sign-out fo...

This day actually started at 11:30pm last night. Had a couple of hours sleep only and had our last supper around 7pm. At 11:30pm we set off on the ultimate challenge and one hell of a challenge it turned out to be. We started off steadily climbing, climbing over rocky ground. But it was always steep and always up. We passed through scree (like scoria) and the thought of coming down through that made me shudder. The air got much thiner as we climbed and breath...

Day six. Friday 18/10/2013This will be my last entry until after summit. Not such a restful night last night but I still slept ok. I spent some time pushing myself up from the bottom of the tent as it became apparent I was on a gentle downward slope. And then that bloody sleeping bag kept trying to strangle me. Every time I rolled over, the damned thing rolled around too with the hood intent on smothering me. I laugh when I think back to my cursing the damne...

Day five. Great sleep again which always involves some rolling around changing sleeping sides. Warm as toast Tonight. Filled my water bottle up with hot water and literally had a hot water bottle. We slept in the presence of the Baranco wall last night. A 300 ft wall of rock climbing and scrambling - no poles as the get in the way. It is a 2 hour big effort at altitude and one that my legs fatigued after about 220 ft. Doesn't sound much but there wa...