Our team has reached about 4330m and are camping out at Mawenzi Tarn. We are all pretty tired from today’s hike, and are starting to get mild headaches, but I’d say that our team is still in high spirits, and are adjusting quite well. We’ve left the grassy slopes behind and can only see rocks […]

Waking up at 6.30 hasn’t been a strong point of the team. A few of our team (Starkey, Chris and Danny) have needed an extra kick up the backside to get up, (joyfully administered by Dean). We were told that we had an armed guard with us last night to protect us from bull elephants […]

After a decent nights sleep we were all quite excited to prepare for our climb, and for meeting with our guides. The first part of our travel was to walk from the Rongal Gate (1600m) to the First Cave Camp at (2600m). Our guides informed us to constantly take in water (around 4-5 litres a […]