By Daniel Munslow Day 6 – The summit! With butterflies in our stomachs, we left Barafu Hut at midnight to start the summit attempt. It’s a seven-hour uphill trek with little-to-no flat surfaces to rest or recover. We were hiking on stone scree through the Alpine Desert all the way to Stella Point on the [...]
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Kilimanjaro: Trials and tribulations Part 3
By Daniel Munslow Day 4 Barranco Wall is a steep two-hour climb from 3870m to 4200m. It’s technical and challenging and takes you on the edge of a sheer slope. Once this segment was over, we headed out on a four-hour hike, across desert terrain and finally through the Karanga Valley to reach the Karanga [...]
Kilimanjaro: Trials and tribulations Part 2
By Daniel Munslow Day 2 We started our day at 06:15 in Machame camp at 2980m when Bariki, the server, woke us up and brought water for cleaning. There are no showers or flushing toilets for seven days. For the most part, it’s a case of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable! By 07:00 we were [...]
Touchdown in Arusha
We land at Arusha, the starting point for those heading for Kili. We are greeted by an airport official who escorts us outside the building, past the rank of taxis is varying states of roadwithiness and ushers us into the eccentrically named B-52 Bomber Cafe. It’s run by a South African woman whose husband spends [...]
7 Summits: Paragliding Kili
On Friday of last week, a group of South African explorers summited Mt. Kilimanjaro and paraglided off….
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Sunburn: Casablanca to Joburg!
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Hope for the Future: a scary split-up and the completion of stage one
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Stuck in the Okavango Delta in a mini-skirt
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Mountain gorilla habitat under siege in DR Congo
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Hope for the Future: dramatic scenery and ‘the day with the sunrise’
