Gerald Davison
Day 2 - breaking camp with Kibo in the background
We started to settle into the morning routine of 'bed tea' at around 06:00 - 06:30, a bowl each of warm personal washing water was then provided. We then packed up all our gear inside the tent into our duffel bags. Then you took everything out of the tent and put your day pack and duffel bag onto separate tarpaulins. This allowed the porters to take down the tents while we went off to the mess tent for breakfast. By the time we came out all the tents would be down and our duffel bags would have been wrapped in a waterproof bag.
All we had to do the was pick up our day pack and then set off on the days walk.
In the above picture you can see the washing water bowls at Nigels feet. We hadn't seen Kibo the prevous day due to a low cloud layer, so it was very exciting to see our objective for the first time. It was hard to believe we were three days away from an attempt at the summit !
Day 2 - breaking camp with Kibo in the background
We started to settle into the morning routine of 'bed tea' at around 06:00 - 06:30, a bowl each of warm personal washing water was then provided. We then packed up all our gear inside the tent into our duffel bags. Then you took everything out of the tent and put your day pack and duffel bag onto separate tarpaulins. This allowed the porters to take down the tents while we went off to the mess tent for breakfast. By the time we came out all the tents would be down and our duffel bags would have been wrapped in a waterproof bag.
All we had to do the was pick up our day pack and then set off on the days walk.
In the above picture you can see the washing water bowls at Nigels feet. We hadn't seen Kibo the prevous day due to a low cloud layer, so it was very exciting to see our objective for the first time. It was hard to believe we were three days away from an attempt at the summit !