Today we woke up at 11 pm (on the 27th) to grab our “breakfast” aka biscuits and tea. We left at 11:40 on our way to the top, we were the second group to leave the camp for that night. We started walking through the valley, zigzagging our way up to make it easier, but […]

  Today we were woken up as usual by our porters at 6:30 to get ready and have our breakfast. following breakfast, we headed off towards base camp, our last stop before the summit. We left at 8:10 am on our 8km trek. About halfway there we crossed the wreckage of a passenger plane, that […]

Today I was woken up at 4am by the rain falling on our tent, and because it was raining so heavily I wasn’t able to go outside to pee until 30 mins later, when the rain finally calmed down. we got our wakeup call at 6:30 and I got to grab a few shots of […]

  Today we were woken up at 6:30 by our porters with a bowl of hot water to wash ourselves. We then proceeded to breakfast at 7 in the mess tent, where we had omelette and sausages along with our tea. after breakfast, since it was Christmas we opened our gift from mom, which ended […]

  Today we woke up at 6am and got to see the dun rise over mount Kilimanjaro from Dad’s balcony. we then got a cold shower because we couldn’t figure out how to turn the hot water on, and then went down to grab breakfast. returning to our rooms, we put the final touches on […]

Today I woke up at 7:30, to try and Skype Jamie, which was very glitchy, but at least I had some form of internet. After skyping didn’t work, I took a nap before breakfast at 10:30. Following breakfast, we met at 12 with our CEO in the meeting room of the hotel, which looked like […]