Kilimanjaro Expedition Dispatch
August 10, 2014 – Team at High Camp
It is 3 in the afternoon on Sunday, the 10th, and I am calling from what we call our High Camp, we made it to 16,000ft. Our gears are all up here, our camp is set up, we just arrived to a rousting singing and dancing, the most energetic yet, the entire team joined in where all the guides and staff welcomed to 16,000 ft. This team looks great, believe me.
We are looking across at the jagged multi-summit peaks of Mwenzi and we will be going tomorrow towards Stella Point, nearly 19,000ft. on the crater rim. We are really looking forward this year to the signs, I heard that just 2 or 3 weeks ago they changed signs at Stella Point and at Uhuru, the very top of Kilimanjaro.
Few years ago, about 2 years ago, they put up this really ugly plastic green signs and I was pleased to hear that the Kilimanjaro National Park has replaced yet again with some wooden signs similar to the old ones that were there for many, many years. Hopefully we will be standing by those signs tomorrow as we reached the top of Kilimanjaro, first Stella Point, then across to perhaps Uhuru, the very highest point.
We keep reporting, posted as we climb higher, towards our goal and we will give you a report about what the moon does as it rises tonight, I am not sure what the clouds will be doing but we are in a beautiful spot regardless at High Camp.