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Incredible sensation of belonging to The Universe when you experience a moment like this when a took this photo. The tents at Karanga Camp at Kilimanjaro National Park on the foreground, the lights from City of Moshi, mount Neru on the right side with The Moon shinning on top of it and the sky canopy with The Milkyway!
The night sky with the moon and the city of Moshi . The orange stripe by mount Neru was an airplane during the long exposure of this shot taken from Karanga Camp at 13200 feet high. Kilimanjaro National Park.
The sky cleared totally and this beautiful view surprised us with Moshi City bright under the sky canopy with the milkyway.
Mount Mawenzi (5149 m) is the third highest peak in Africa after Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya (50 m taller).
Panorama shot at the evening of day 6 at Barafu Camp. Mount Mawenzi is the only land still illuminated by the sun.
Having made it up onto the Crater Rim we could start to enjoy the early dawn as the sun rose across the African sky.
Mount Mawenzi is highlighted by the last sun rays at the day 6. Just a few hours before we will try to reach the Kilimanjaro summit.
That's me happy to continue the hiking. Last day I had a terrible headache due to the high altitude. Thought in giving up but today the mood is great! Lets go pole, pole!
DAY 6
Karanga Camp to Barafu Camp
Elevation: 13,106 ft to 15,331 ft
Distance: 4 km/2 miles
Hiking Time: 4-5 hours
Habitat: Alpine Desert
Unshaven and a bit ragtag for the boys and no makeup and hair brushed for the girls as things get real after 5-6 days on the mountain.
OK, this didn't really happen this way. Photoshop and I just like to pretend. She was doing some yoga or something, and I thought it would be more exciting this way. So just work with me, here.
The morning brought a great undercast with Mount Meru (~14,000') poking up through it in the distance. You can see someone using the cell phone rock in the background, too.
Snoozing at lunch stop between Mti Mkubwa and Shira One Camp, Lemosho Route, Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Africa
Greatness is achieving a goal & going through the journey of reaching that destination. It is about discovering your best potential and realizing that learning takes place daily. Greatness demands that we go that proverbial mile and traverse unchartered waters with courage & a determined spirit. Approximately 8:59am, July 31, 2007
Photo taken by Deo Richards.
The cloud deck deigned to lift slightly right around sunset to give us anothre great view of Mt. Meru. The porters enjoyed the view with us.
This camp is the main jumping off point for people climbing the most popular route. They leave from here at about midnight to summit around sunrise. I much preferred our route, which required only 600' of vertical on the last day.
Barafu was crowded and dirty. We stopped there for lunch, then were sacked by clouds and light rain for the remainder of the day.
Ravens seemed to have no problems flying around above 17,000' if it meant they could have some of my lunch muffin.
This one requires some serious explaination.
All of the women on the trip except one had some sort of feminine urinary director to allow them to discretely pee whilst hiking and to more-easily pee into a bottle in the tent to save having to get out of the tent during cold nights. There was some serious peer pressure on Catherine to get something that would do the job in order to avoid misery during the hike. It was decided that if we could come up with a small plastic funnel like the ones used to add oil to a car, a proper device could be fashioned. We asked Jonas, the head guide for the expedition, if we could stop on the way to the mountain and procure an oil funnel.
Now you have to understand that the guides and porters will stop at nothing to get you what you want if you express something like this. So the vehicles stopped at this market and the entire crew dispersed in search of funnels.
Anyway, this is what came back. Huge, steel, hilarious.
Needless to say, it did not get used. Though it did get carried all the way to the summit because no one had the heart to tell them that this wasn't what was needed and we were too busy laughing about it anyway.
The size of this pit is difficult to convey. We had to climb about 300' to get up to the rim like this, then it drops down quite a ways inside. It's about 0.75 miles across. The central ash pit looks like Sarlacc's pit to me.
The moment that all the hard work and sacrifice paid off for, standing on top of the highest free standing mountain in the world and one of the 'Seven Summits' Mount Kilimanjaro.
Idyllisch: Sonnenaufgang über dem Kilimanjaro. Am Morgen und am Abend gab es zumeist freie Sicht auf das gewaltige Gebirgsmassiv, tagsüber filterten Wolken oder Dunstschleier die kräftig strahlende Sonne.
This is what the world looks like from 19,340' just south of the equator.
Definitely click the magnifying glass on this one, then select "view all sizes," then "original." It's worth the download.
This is Mti Mkubwa (Big Tree) Camp, a flat spot atop a ridge on the western slopes of Kilimanjaro. It was our first campsite of the expedition. It is still in the rainforest zone, but just barely. Each pair of clients got a 3-person mountain hardware expedition tent to themselves, then there were three large tents for the porters. One of them doubled as a cooking tent and one as a dining tent.