

Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania
The weather wasn't doing us any favours although the worst of the wind and rain was at night- we learned later on that we were seeing the early effects of Cyclone Bingiza which was off the coast but heading for land just south of us. On Day 6 we arrived at the final pre-summit camp and after a short rest we started our summit climb at 11:30pm (the theory around climbing at night is that we would arrive at the false peak of Stella in time for a brilliant Afric...