After last nights lonely and scary events, I'm woken up with tea and then hot water and as I peer out of my tent I see the clouds below us and the awesome view. I have splendid views of the Shira Ridge to the west with its three pinnacles of the Shira Needle, Shira Cathedral and East Shira Hill. (another Hill!) I look out the other side of the tent to the east and see the Kibo's western breach and its glaciers really well! I still feel terrible and have lost the ...

I had such vivid dreams last night. All I can remember is that in my dream the spirit of the top of the mountiain came down to me and told me she was waiting for me at the top and that I would make it there soon. This is probably a side effect of the Malarone tablets I'm taking against getting malaria, but it gives me a little bit of a nice mental boost! I get up at 4am along with my tent mate Eugenia to use the loo and we find the cloud has lifted and the sky is...

I had a good nights sleep at the hotel. At breakfast, cereal, fruit juice, cooked breakfast and tea, we meet Travis from the UK, the final member of our group. After Breakfast we watch our things and all the equiptment being laid out ready to begin our trip. We are all given a packed lunch to take with us in our day packs. There is a strict weighing of all the bags as there are regulations regarding how much each porter is able to carry. each is labelled with our...

I have an overnight flight with Kenya Airways and read up in all my books about what I was about to take on by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. Although I've read it all before, I do feel like I wish I had an extra day to prepare myself mentally, but time has run out and here I am. Kilimanjaro is actually two peaks, Mawenzi and Kibo with the Saddle in between. Kibos last erruption was 100,000 years ago but today its still classed as a dormant active volcano. A lovely ...