Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Climbing Kilimanjaro - Africa's highest mountain via Machame Route
A photo report with 6 chapters and 50 pictures
Kilimanjaro home page
1 Machame Gate (1800m) - Machame Camp (3000m)
2 Machame Camp (3000m) - Shira
Plateau Camp (3800m)
3 Shira Plateau Camp (3800m) - Lava
Tower (4400m) - Barranco Valley Camp (3900m)
4 Barranco Valley Camp (3900m) -
Karranga Valley - Barafo Camp (4600m)
5 Via Stella Point (5732m) to
the summit Uhuru Peak
(5895m)
6 Descend via Millennium Camp (3800m) and
Mweka Camp (3000m) to Mweka Gate (1800m)
see also on this site: Mount Meru
Arusha Nationalpark
Lake Manyara NP
Ngorongoro Krater
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It is much easier now.
90 minutes of scree run bring us down from Stella Point to Barafo
Camp. |
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On the ridge of lava the tents of Barafo
Camp can be spotted. |
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Rebmann glacier glows at the crater rim. |
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The first part of the very long descend
is done. View to Barafo Camp. |
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Hours later, and another 1600 meters
further down.
Mweka Camp is at 3000 meter in the rain forest. After heavy afternoon
rain we have to get used to the deep and clammy clay ground. |
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Breakfast table is ready after a
recreative night. Our dining room is already packed. Today everybody
wants to leave early. |
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The full infrastructure can be seen on
the photo: The loo and the rescue facilities.
Anyway, there were two kinds of beer availabe at the campsite. |
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24 hours ago we were standing up there,
3000 meters higher than now. |
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Our 28 porters are waiting for the tip
to be distributed. They get 15 US$ per person.
They seemed to be content with it. They were in a good mood along the
whole trip. |
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The very last stage crossing the rain
forest. Another 1200 height meters to descend. The knees tell us it
should be close to the finish now. |
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Left and right to the well maintained
path the green is impenetrable. |
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At the finish: Back to bureaucracy.
Everybody gets their certificate proving that they reached the top. |
Kilimanjaro home page
1 Machame Gate (1800m) - Machame Camp (3000m)
2 Machame Camp (3000m) - Shira
Plateau Camp (3800m)
3 Shira Plateau Camp (3800m) - Lava
Tower (4400m) - Barranco Valley Camp (3900m)
4 Barranco Valley Camp (3900m) -
Karranga Valley - Barafo Camp (4600m)
5 Via Stella Point (5732m) to
the summit Uhuru Peak
(5895m)
6 Descend via Millennium Camp (3800m) and
Mweka Camp (3000m) to Mweka Gate (1800m)
see also on this site: Mount Meru
(still to come:
Arusha Nationalpark
Lake Manyara NP
Ngorongoro Krater )
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