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Region: Africa >> Tanzania
Travel time: 2012, June 20th to June 23th
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“This night will be very cold on the summit, expect -20°C“, Nelson warns us and we fill up our camel backs with hot tea water, even though we know that this won’t help much in six hours when we hopefully get close to the summit. We check our head torches and off we go into the night, following all the other lights in front of us. King William shouts out “Pole, Pole!” (Slow, Slow!) but in reality, we actually have a reasonable speed and pass one group after the other.

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Region: Africa >> Tanzania
Travel time: 2012, June 15th to June 19th
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“Right where you are,” our guide says, “is where the man died in the landslide.” I look at him in utter disbelieve and continue slogging through the alpine desert, 4.000 meters above the African plain. Climbing to Mt. Kilimanjaro’s snowy summit is a once in a lifetime experience for some and the start of a mountaineering career for others. I’m not sure which group I belong to just yet, but I will certainly share my experiences on the world’s highest free standing mountain.

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I’m happy to announce that I just finished writing my Travel Blog about the Kilimanjaro Trek from June this Year.

I will split the 4000 words into two parts, release the first one this friday and the second part with the video next friday. It was lot’s of work but also great fun to go through the whole trip in detail again, even if it did take some sleeping hours away in the last nights. 🙂

Cheers
Chris