Kilimanjaro Summitted!!!
On the 25th of August I made it to the Kibo sumit of Mount Kilimanjaro – the hardest thing I have ever done! We began our final ascent to the summit at 5895m at midnight from the Barafu camp at 4600m. As we got higher the wind chill increased, making me appreciate the six layers of clothing I was wearing, including thermal base layers! It took six hours of trekking up steep and relentless zig zags, with the last half an hour up exhusting scree that made you slip back a step for every two you went forward. Finally we made it to Stella point just over 100m from the summit at around 7am. The others were feeling the altitiude and decided that they could go no further. I was feeling pretty knackered but I was not going to let 100m beat me soalong with Philand our guide Fostine pushed onwards. The route to the summit was not too steep and after 30 mins with regular breaks the summit sign came into view. It was a great feeling to reach the summit, making the hard slog worth it 
Here’s a photo of the three of us at the summit:
I’m now on Zanzibar Island, having a nice relaxing time on the beach The internet is unbearably slow so I will save a proper update for another time….
Well done mate. Apart from the trek you are following our footsteps from our honeymoon as the safari is the one we went on and we also did Zanzibar. Where abouts on the island are you?
Been in Stone Town the last few days, off to the east coast to
morrow in A place called Paje. Nice place, good food, laid back people, and great beaches – did so
e reef snorkelling today which was great. It’s hot too, only downer is the rather persistent middies, they like English meat!
We went to the east coast, a long trek across a very poor road, though looking at the satellite image that may have been fixed. i was trying to work out which hotel we stayed at and it looks like the one before the bend in the road at the end of the penisula near Pingwe.