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“Occupy Kilimanjaro”, the July 31st team, got a
taste of some thinner air climbing the Lava Tower, before descending to
Barranco Camp for the night:
Hello, this is Don Carpenter, with the “Occupy Kilimanjaro” Kili climb team
and it’s the 5th of August, about 7 pm, just before 7. I’m getting ready to go
into the tent for dinner.
We had another great day today, we left Shira Camp (Shira Camp is at 3837
meters). We hiked up slowly and gradually, and up over the Lava Tower camp.
And actually had a side excursion off Lava Tower, which topped us out at just
over 4600 meters. And then descended back down, so it was an acclimatization
day, going high and then coming low to sleep low, and we’re sleeping at
Barranco Camp tonight (at 3976 meters). So overall we’ve only gained about 100
meters but we went up high today, to allow people to get a taste of the
thinner air, then come back down low, to sleep low. So that’s for our
acclimatization.
Everyone’s doing well, today was a longer day, we got into camp a little bit
later and now we’re all heading into the dining tent for dinner. We’ll be
climbing the Barranco Wall tomorrow, and going to Karanga Camp.
We’ll talk to you soon. Bye!
Team “Occupy Kilimanjaro”, the July 31st expedition, had a steep climb up from
Machame, then traversed to the Shira Plateau and beautiful views of upper
Kilimanjaro:
Good morning, this is Don Carpenter, with the July 31st Kili expedition, and
we have a new team name which is “Occupy Kilimanjaro”. Currently the 5th of
August, it’s about 7 in the morning and we’re waking up here at Shira Camp
(which is 12,500 feet). We had a great day yesterday, we hiked from Machame
Camp and up to Shira Camp on the Shira Plateau. We had a steep climb out of
camp, for the first few hours, had a sit down lunch and then the last couple
hours, the elevation mellows out a little bit and we traversed over to the
Shira Plateau.
We were in the clouds in the morning and then shortly after lunch we broke out
of the clouds and had our first real views of the upper mountain, of Mount
Kilimanjaro. Everybody’s doing great, we rolled in, had some down time, and
dinner last night. And today we’ll have a longer hiking day to Barranco Camp.
Everyone’s doing well and we have a message from the group:
“Hi Tom, hi Sally, it’s Mommy and Daddy. We love you, we miss you. Africa’s
beautiful, Don’s doing a great job guiding and we’re super safe. Tom, I hope
you had a wonderful time at summer camp. Bye!”
We’ll talk to you all tonight. Bye!
Team #8, Team Rosebowl hiked up through some clouds and mist, then were
welcomed to sunny Shira Camp with songs and beautiful views:
Hi everyone, this is Ben calling in with Team #8, or Team Rosebowl. We’re
doing just great here, we’re at Shira Camp tonight. We had a nice hike, today
we left our first camp (at 10,000 feet) Machame Camp, then we climbed up here
to around 12,300 feet at Shira Camp, up on the Shira Plateau. We had pretty
nice weather most of the day, we had some clouds roll through as we were
ascending up, some clouds and mist, and foggy conditions. As we kept
continuing to get a little bit higher, about lunchtime, the clouds kind of
broke and we had some great views down out over the clouds down below us. It
was nice and sunny most of the afternoon. We got into camp, and once again all
of our staff here, the Tanzanian staff sang us some great songs, welcoming us
to camp. It got a little cloudy this afternoon, we had some clouds roll
through and a little bit of wind here at Shira Camp, but overall a nice day.
Just finished up dinner. Everybody’s doing good with the altitude, no
headaches, or no issues at all, as far as the altitude goes. Everybody is
acclimatizing well, taking very good care of themselves, drinking lots of
water. Our bodies need more water to process all of the extra activity we’re
doing and acclimatize better, so we’re all doing that, we’re eating lots of
food, and we’re having lots of laughs.
This group has a great sense of humor, they all know each other very well and
it’s a fun group to be with so far. We’re at 12,300 feet tonight, tomorrow we
will head up, get a little bit higher, up about 14,000 feet potentially or
even around 15,000 feet up near lava tower and then we’ll descend back down to
Barranco Camp tomorrow. We’ll be at 12,800 feet tomorrow night, so we’re
staying around this 12-13,000 foot area the next, tonight, tomorrow night and
the following night after that to help ourselves acclimatize and get ready for
the big summit push up to 19,000 feet.
Having a great time, everybody says “hello” and “hi” back home to all those
friends, family, and loved ones following along here. Talk to you tomorrow!
The Hunter family climbed the great Barranco Wall under a beautiful Tanzanian
sky:
Hey, this is Jonathan Spitzer with the Hunters Kilimanjaro trip. Today is day
4 for us and we left Barranco Camp, climbed up the Barranco Wall and are
slowly making our way over to Karanga Camp (up at about 3900 meters).
Another beautiful day here in Tanzania, with a sea of clouds below us and just
blue skies above us. So far we’re having a really good time, the family is
enjoying this unique family vacation halfway around the world. That’s about it
for now, tomorrow we’re going to be moving up to our high camp and hopefully
on the following day we’ll be making a summit attempt.
Thanks for following our cybercast. Bye!
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Earlier:
July 30th Kili Team hikes from Machame Gate,
through rainforests to the heather and a wonderful dinner in Machame Camp:
Hello, this is Don Carpenter with the July 30th
Kilimanjaro expedition. Today is August 3rd and today was our first day on the
mountain. We left Arusha this morning and drove up to the Machame Gate, where
we registered for our climb and met our crew of staff and we started hiking.
We had about five or six hours on the trail and gained close to 4000 feet of
elevation, camped at Machame Camp tonight.
Walked through the rainforests today, through nice overcast and cool, perfect
weather for hiking and broke out of the rainforest into the heather and here
we are at Machame Camp. So we had our first night in the field, with a
beautiful dinner and everybody’s getting to know each other and everybody’s
feeling good. And we’re going to bed early, everybody’s been traveling so
folks are excited for a good night …. (transmission cuts out). We will talk
(transmission ends)
The Hunter family team enjoys spectacular views and delicious dinner under a
full moon at Barranco Camp on Kilimanjaro:
Hello, this is Jonathan Spitzer with Team
Hunter here on Kilimanjaro. Today is day 3 for us, we’re just finishing up
here after a nice long day as we climbed from Shira Camp (up over to 4400
feet, 4400 meters sorry) and back down to Barranco Camp (here at 3900 meters).
Paige, Wyatt, and myself did a little variation, we climbed the Lava Tower, on
the way up (to 4600 meters) while Tammy and David just enjoyed the sights and
scenery and walked down to Barranco Camp.
The food so far has been amazing! Tonight we were greeted with juice and pork
chops and fresh salad. Just enjoying the scenery lately, we’ve had amazing
weather with a sea of clouds below us, clear skies and some of the most
spectacular stars we’ve seen. And luckily we’re here during a full moon, and
the moon’s been up every night, keeping us awake!
Thanks for following our cybercasts, and we’ll stay in touch shortly. Bye!
Team #8 “Team Rosebowl” starting to see Kilimanjaro, as the clouds clear their
first night on the mountain:
Hi everyone, this is Ben calling in with Team
#8 here on Kilimanjaro. We’re doing great, our first view at 10,000 feet. And
our team name is going to be “Team Rosebowl”. We’re doing really well, we’ve
got quite the group, quite a team sitting here, it’s been a fun trip so far,
just in the first day here of the journey. Excellent!
We’re hiking very efficient and slow today and looking forward to tomorrow. It
was cloudy most of the day today and we’re starting to get some views here of
the mountains, as the clouds are clearing off this evening. We’re going to
hike up to about 12,300 feet tomorrow and we’re doing very well.
We’ll talk to you tomorrow as we climb higher up on Kilimanjaro. Talk to you
soon!
Mambo #5 finishes climb and heads to safari
Hi Everyone!:
We wrapped up the climbing portion of the trip
last night, with a celebration dinner in Arusha, and lots of toasts to the
team!
Today folks departed for their 4 day/3 night safari journey on the beautiful
Northern Tanzania circuit. Tarangire, NgoroNgoro, and Serengeti National
parks.
I would like to thank everyone for their awesome effort and support of each
other during our climb. It was great to have Ron Farb and his team here- 10
folks on this trip raised over $100,000 dollars on behalf of the Climb for
Cancer Foundation in Gainesville, Florida!
As usual our Tanzanian crew did an awesome job and deserves much thanks and
respect! We removed 45 kg of extra trash (from other groups/companies) in our
on-going effort to help keep Kilimanjaro clean.
Thanks for following along! Our Summer season will continue thru mid
September, with Ben Jones, Don Carpenter, and Sarah Carpenter leading trips.
Time for me to head home and get some winery work done- it has been a very
busy last 8 months- Tanzania-Seattle-Nepal-Seattle-Tanzania!
All My Best!
Eric
Kilimanjaro Team 8 Arrives in Arusha!!!:
Hello Everyone!
All members and all luggage are now safely here in Arusha for
Team #8! For most of the team we had a day of checking gear, an orientation
about the trip, a town tour, and a Welcome dinner! After dinner the remaining
members arrived at the hotel after a long few days of travel and a cancelled
flight! We were all happy to see them here with their luggage though and I was
able to get them caught up and ready for the start of the trip today!
In a couple hours we will be loading up in ‘Land Cruisers’ and heading to the
Machame gate at Kilimanjaro national park. From there we will begin our hike
to the first camp tonight which is at around 10,000 feet.
Follow along as we climb to the "Roof of Africa"! There will be daily
dispatches.
Ben Jones
Our route up the Machame and down the Mweka
The Hunters heading to Shira Camp, enjoying an
amazing family vacation on Kilimanjaro!:
Hello, this is Jonathon Spitzer with the
Hunters on Kilimanjaro. Today we’re on Day 2, we’re moving from 3000 meters to
3900 meters. Everybody’s doing very well, we’re having a lot of fun here with
the family. This is an amazing family vacation, as we’re playing games on the
trails and having a good time.
The food so far has been amazing and we’re eating fresh fruit and the service
here is phenomenal! Our two local guides and our chef doing a great job! And
everybody’s feeling really good with the altitude so far. It’s a beautiful day
here in Tanzania.
Thanks for following, and we’ll be in touch more throughout the week. Thanks!
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Earlier:
Team Mambo #5 Made it to the Summit of
Kilimanjaro! Heading to Arusha tomorrow, then on to Safari:
Hey Everyone, it’s Mambo #5, calling in from Kilimanjaro. It’s
the 1st of August, at about 6pm and we would like the world to know that
everybody made the summit today! We had a fantastic day, climbing to the top
of Africa and everyone made it.
We are now down at our low camp, Millenium (at about 12,300 feet) where we’re
going to spend the night and get ourselves a good night’s sleep, since we
didn’t get much last night. Tomorrow we’re going to head down to the Mweka
Gate and make our way back to Arusha, have a safari briefing, talk about the
second part of the program, and go out and have a nice celebration dinner.
We’ll give you one more call from dinner tomorrow night. Thanks for following
along!
Kilimanjaro Team 6 AKA “The Hunters”:Today we met at the very nice Arusha
Hotel and went over all our equipment for our Kilimanjaro climb. The Hunter
Family climb includes, David (father), Tammy (mother), and both the kids Paige
and Wyatt.
The family has been traveling around Africa over two weeks on various safari
and wildlife refugee trips. Paige prior to meeting up with her family was on a
3 week project with her school from Vancouver helping to build homes in a
remote part of Kenya.
Tomorrow we will start to make our ascent up Kilimanjaro.
Thanks for following our cybercast.
Jonathon
Mambo #5 In Great Spirits At High Camp, Getting Ready For A
Midnight Climb To The Summit Of Kilimanjaro:
Hey Everyone, it’s Mambo #5 (team all chimes in from background, amidst
cheering)! We’re in good spirits here at high camp, Kosovo (15,600 feet) above
sea level. It’s the 31st of July, about 5:30 in the afternoon and we’re
getting ready to have an early dinner and go to bed.
We’re going to get up at 11 and head up to the summit starting at midnight.
The weather looks awesome and everybody’s doing great. So wish us a great
summit climb and we’ll give you guys a call from our low camp at Millenium
tomorrow night.
Ta ta!
Team 4: Mountain Simbas Finish Climb, Head Out On Safari!:
Hello Everyone!
Last night we had an excellent celebratory dinner at a local restaurant here
in Arusha. It felt good to get a hot shower and have the luxuries of a bed in
the New Arusha Hotel before most of the team headed out on the safari today!
We had some great times on this trip and what a great group of people to share
this great experience with. I wish them the best on the safari and a huge
congratulations again on all of their successes here in Tanzania! Below are a
bunch of pictures of the group during the last week together on the mountain.
I’ll be heading back to Kilimanjaro in a couple days, and the rest of the team
will be finishing up the safari and heading home in a few more days. Thanks
for following along!
Ben Jones
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Earlier:
Hey all y’all, it’s Mambo #5 here on
Kilimanjaro! It is the 30th of July and we are all here in Karanga Camp, camp
4 (13,000 feet above sea level) and we’re having a great, awesome day.
Everybody is doing well and we’ve got a surprise for you.
(Beautiful singing in Swahili and joyous cheering at the end.)
Good times here on Kilimanjaro!
Hi everyone, this is Ben calling in with the Mountain Simbas, Kilimanjaro Team
#4. We summited! 12 out of 15 of us made it to the summit yesterday, and made
it back down to base camp a few hours later, and made our way all the way back
down to a lower camp called Millenium Camp, at 12,000 feet last night. Calling
in a little late, I wasn’t able to get a cybercast out last night.
It was a very long day, but everyone did a fantastic job of most everyone
getting to the top and the couple of other people turning around, got as high
as they could. It was a very cold night, which made it a little more difficult
and we had some high winds up on the ridge as we were going up to the true
summit, Uhuru Peak. But overall it was a great day, people pushed really hard
to get themselves up to the summit and to try to stay warm as well. We had a
great time though, we’re back down safely.
Everybody’s feeling good, we got a good night’s sleep last night, after not
really sleeping for a whole night as we travelled up to the summit but we’re
doing good now. We hiked out about 5 and a half hours to hike out this morning
from our camp at Millenium Camp. And got down to the gate, where we had a nice
buffet lunch and relaxed there for a little bit. Just drove back the two hours
back to Arusha here and we just got checked in to the hotel.
Everybody’s doing great now, we’re going to have a celebratory dinner tonight
and end the trip. Most people will be going on the safari tomorrow and a few
people will be heading home. We’ve had a great trip. I’m going to post some
pictures here in just a little while, so you can see how our trip was, but
everybody did great again. It was a lot of fun, we had a great trip and a
great group.
So thanks everyone for following along and I look forward to doing another one
really soon. Talk to you soon!
Hey all y’all its Mambo #5, here on Kilimanjaro, it’s the 29th of July, about
8pm and we’re at Barranco Camp, elevation 12,900 feet. We’re doing awesome, we
had a great day today, beautiful weather, warm temperatures, and very few
clouds, lots of visibility, great mountain views, and everyone got into
Barranco Camp well. We just had dinner and it was a long day so folks are
headed to bed.
A couple messages from the group: Ron and the Climb for Cancer Foundation Team
would like to thank everyone for their support of this year’s Kilimanjaro
Climb! Mitzi would like to remind Sammy to study for that A.C.T.! And Logan,
Happy Birthday from Dad!
We’re going to get ourselves a good 8 hours of sleep y’all, and tomorrow we
have a short day going to Karanga, at 13,300 feet, where we will rest up in
preparation to move to high camp and to climb this baby, so we will talk to
you tomorrow. Usiku Mwema! (Good Night in Swahili)
Hi, it’s Don Carpenter, with the July 20th Kili expedition, calling on July
29th. It appears I got cut off on the last call. So I just wanted to make sure
my message got out, I’ll give an abbreviated version. We are all safe and
sound back in Arusha.
Had a great hike out today and a great lunch celebration at Mweka Gate and
everybody’s here at the hotel in Arusha, looking forward to showers and some
rest and dinner this evening and then everyone’s off for safari starting
tomorrow. Take care and thanks for listening.
This is Don Carpenter, with the July 20th Kili expedition, and it’s July 29th
about 3 in the afternoon and we are all safe and sound back in Arusha. I’m
making this call out the window at the Arusha Hotel, so you might be able to
hear the sounds of Arusha in the background. (Transmission cuts out)… a long
hike down the trail (Transmission ends).
Hey everybody, it’s Team #5 here on Kilimanjaro! It’s the 28th of July, we’re
here in Shira Camp (at 12,400 feet) having an awesome time. We just had
dinner, we’ve got some music going, thanks to Ali with the guitar (music in
background).
And we are now “Mambo #5”, that’s our team name, “Mambo #5” and with me here I
have:
Boston Pops, Tech Support, Happy Stuff, The Sweeper, Zipper, Duchess of Long
Island, Rebound, Inquisitor, Big Wig, Hobbit, and Emurf. We’re going to enjoy
ourselves tonight with a little music, get a good night’s sleep, and we’ll
give you guys a call tomorrow from Barranco Camp.
Hi everyone, this is Ben calling in with Mountain Simbas, Team
#4 here on Kilimanjaro. We’re at high camp (at 15,800 feet) and we’re doing
great. We had another great hiking day today, it was a little bit windy but we
had some clear views around the mountain and some low clouds down below us but
overall a beautiful day.
Everybody continues to do really well with the altitude and taking care of
themselves, as far as drinking lots of water and eating enough to sustain
themselves up here. We’re doing well, we just had dinner. We got up to high
camp in the early afternoon to get a little rest here before we wake up around
11pm tonight to go for the summit at midnight. We just had an early dinner,
everybody’s off to bed now. We’ve done some packing to get ready for tonight,
and we’ll wake up at about 11pm and have breakfast then be ready to leave by
midnight. So we’ll let you know how tomorrow goes, but it’s a little windy
right now here at high camp, but hopefully those winds will come down this
evening before we go. And hopefully we’ll have a beautiful day on the summit.
Wish us well, and we’ll let you know how tomorrow goes. We’ll give you a call
once we start heading down the mountain. We’re going to summit, then pack up
gear at high camp and descend down the mountain a few more thousand feet and
camp around 12,000 feet tomorrow night. So I’ll let you know how everything
goes tomorrow and we’ll talk to you soon.
Ciao!
Hey everyone!
We’re calling from the July 20th Kilimanjaro expedition and we had a full day,
it was a great day. And it is currently July 28th, about 3:30 in the
afternoon. So we woke up last night at 11pm, for a light breakfast and then
headed off on our summit climb. Climbed uphill for quite awhile in the pitch
dark, with beautiful stars overhead, yeah it was just a great night, a great
summit night.
We hit Stella Point probably about 5 and got into quite bit of wind, then we
pushed on up to Uhuru Peak, and summited at about 8am this morning. And our
entire group got up there, we had a beautiful sunrise looking down on a big
sea of clouds. And descended back down to our high camp, where we rested, had
some lunch, then packed up and continued descending down the mountain. So
we’ve gone from the summit at 5895 meters all the way down to millennium camp
at 3800 meters.
So quite a day, 3:30 in the afternoon, folks are now just taking naps and
relaxing, and we’re going to have dinner at 6:30, then we’ll head out to the
trailhead tomorrow. We’ll be in Arusha by tomorrow afternoon. Everybody’s
doing well and happy and we’ll talk to you soon.
Bye!
Hello everyone, this is Ben calling in with The Mountain Simbas, Team #4 here
on Kili. We’re doing great, another great day.
Today we ascended up the Barranco Wall, which was right out of camp. We
ascended up a couple thousand feet, first thing in the morning. Pretty neat
climb going up there, you have to kind of do a couple little rock climbing
moves, but a lot of just little scrambling and weaving our ways in and out of
around some big rocks and things. Got up to the top, and we would’ve had a
great view but we had some pretty cloudy weather most of the day today, but it
kept it nice and cool along the trail. And we just had a great day hiking,
getting to know each other more on the trail. And we ascended up to a little
over 14,000 feet, then we dropped back down another thousand feet or so and we
climbed up just a little bit more up to camp today, up to Karanga Camp.
This is our shortest day of the hike, which is nice in
preparation for the summit day, which is coming up very soon. People did
great, got a good night of sleep the night before and are feeling great today
here at camp. We got in nice and early, had lunch at camp and had a few hours
in the afternoon just to kind of relax around camp and get ready for the
summit here coming up in the next couple days.
Everybody’s doing great, feeling good, getting acclimatized and no headaches
or anything at this point. Everybody’s doing great with the altitude, they’re
really taking care of themselves, drinking lots of water, and eating lots of
food too, which is great. Tomorrow we’re going to climb up to our high camp
and get ready for the summit push. So we just had a great dinner here this
evening, and we’re heading off to bed, and we’ll wake up tomorrow and head up
to our high camp (at about 15,800 feet).
So wish us luck, everybody says hello back home and we’ll talk to you very
soon. Ciao!
Earlier:
Hey y’all, it’s Team #5 here on Kilimanjaro!
It’s the 27th of July and we’re here at Machame Camp (10,000 feet above sea
level). We had a great day today, left Arusha and got to the trailhead,
starting at about 6,500 feet and walked on up to Machame Camp, here at 10,000
feet, in about 6 hours.
Everyone’s doing well, we’re going to get a good night’s sleep here, it’s
about 8:30pm, we just had a nice dinner. And hopefully we’ll be above the
clouds tomorrow, and we’ll have a nice climb up to Shira Camp, at 12,400 feet.
A little bit shorter day tomorrow, with some more downtime and our first real
views of the mountain.
Everyone sends their best home!
Hello! This is Don Carpenter with the July 20th Kili trip and
we are installed here at high camp. It’s July 27th, it’s about 2:30 in the
afternoon and having another good day. The weather’s been beautiful, folks are
doing well. We left camp at 8am, moved nice and slowly and efficiently, and
rolled into high camp here at Kosovo Camp, at around 1 o’clock in the
afternoon. And yeah, that’s about 4800 meters so we’re getting up there.
Everybody’s feeling great, and we just got into our tents and had a little bit
of relaxation and then we had lunch at 1:30, big big meal, everybody’s eating
well. And now we’re just relaxing, as we’re going to have an early night
tonight for our summit attempt. So the plan for this evening, we’re going to
get up at 5pm for dinner, an early dinner, brace ourselves for the summit. And
try and get a few hours of sleep. Then we’ll wake up at about 11pm, have some
breakfast, and be walking shortly after midnight for our summit attempt. The
weather looks great so far, it’s sunny and calm up high and a big sea of
clouds below us, but we’re well above those clouds so…
We shall call you tomorrow, after our summit day and everyone’s doing well and
feeling strong, so should have good news to report. Talk to you later, bye!
Earlier:
Hey all ya’all! Uhuru, ya’all are you following
along? That was for you We are all doing great. The photo is Team 5 enjoying
our welcome dinner after a day of orientation and organizing. Rich’s bag
showed up from Ethiopian Air, so we are all in a great position to head to
Kilimanjaro tomorrow!
It is a great pleasure to be back to Kilimanjaro with Ron Farb and his team,
supporting the Climb For Cancer Foundation in Gainesville, Florida!
We will be calling in from each camp on the mountain.
Asante! Usiku Mwema!
Eric and Team 5
Hello everyone, this is Ben calling in for the
Mountain Simbas, Team #4 here on Kili. We’re doing great, had another great
day today, fantastic weather. We left Shira Camp this morning and hiked
towards Barranco Camp, which is where we are at right now, at about 12,800
feet. We left Shira Camp at about 12,500, we’ve gained a few hundred feet of
elevation, and along the way on the trail today we actually went up to about
14,800 feet. So we are helping acclimatize as we ascended up, kind of
stressing our bodies a little bit and coming back down and sleeping low.
Everybody did great today with the altitude as we ascended up, a few small
headaches and just some minor altitude issues, but now that we are back down
here we are doing well.
Just finished up a great dinner and everybody is off to bed. Today is our
longest day, it’s about 7-8 hours of hiking and after lunch we split up into a
couple of different groups, a couple of people opted to go just slightly
higher, and part of the group decided just to go kind of straight towards
camp, which was great, we all got great acclimatization, so it worked out well
for everybody. Part of the group though, we went up to the Lava Tower option,
we ascended a few hundred extra feet and went up a little bit of a rock climb,
up the Lava Tower, got up to the top and had some nice views up there. It was
a great time and came back down and made it back to Barranco Camp before too
late.
For the most part everyone is doing well, just a little quiet tonight, but
tomorrow will be our shortest day, up to Karanga Camp. We will actually hike
and get all the way into camp before we have lunch, so it will be just about a
3-4 hour hike tomorrow. Doing great, everyone says hello back home to family
and friends and we’ll let you know how tomorrow goes, but we are doing very
well and looking forward to gaining more elevation here on the mountain and
working towards the summit here in the next couple days. We will talk to you
soon, Mountain Simbas signing off.
Hey! This is Don Carpenter with the July 20th Kili expedition and it is
currently July 26th, it’s 6:30 in the evening here on Mount Kilimanjaro. We’ve
had another great day. We had our normal morning routine with hot drinks at
6:30, packing up, breakfast a little after 7:00, and then we were on the go
just after 8am this morning. Headed out of camp, and climbed the great
Barranco Wall, a steep climb but everybody did great. It involved some rock
scrambling, but then we topped out in the sun. From there we crossed through a
couple of river valleys and pushing through the Karanga… (transmission cuts
out) final climb up the half and here we are at the Karanga Camp (at 4000
meters, just over 13,000 feet).
So for the last three nights we’ve camped at about the same elevation,
allowing everyone to acclimatize and everybody’s feeling well. So we rolled
into camp midday today, around 1:00 and had some time to take naps and read,
and we’re waiting on dinner. We’re having dinner at 7:00 and then tomorrow we
move to high camp. So everyone’s doing well and looking forward to getting on
up to high camp.
So we will talk to you from high camp tomorrow! Bye!
Good morning! This is Don Carpenter with the Kilimanjaro July 20th trip and
it’s the morning of July 26th, about 6:30 in the morning. We’re up here at
Barranco… (transmission cuts out) allows us to acclimatize and test the high
altitude. Doing well, and doing good. We’re waking up this morning below the
Barranco Wall. We have a steep climb out of camp this morning, and a
relatively short day and we’ll have some time to rest when we get into camp
this afternoon.
Everybody’s doing well, we’re looking out over and above us (transmission
choppy) we can see the upper mountain above us and looking out on the clouds….
(transmission cuts out).
Hi Everyone! It’s about 10:30 PM here in Arusha, on Wednesday night. It has
been a busy week! Teams 3 & 4 are on the mountain and Team 5 has now all
arrived here to Arusha. We are only missing 1 bag, and are hopeful that it
will arrive tomorrow during orientation day.
Tomorrow will be filled with organization, gear checks, town tour, and our
first dinner as a team together. We head to Kilimanjaro on Friday the 27th for
our first day’s walk from the Machame gate (elevation 6,450 feet) to Machame
Camp (10,000 feet), about 6 miles and 5-6 hours, entirely in the lush and
beautiful forest zone belt of the mountain. We will give you a shout from our
first camp.
Thanks for following along!
Eric
Hello everyone! This is Ben calling in with Kilimanjaro Team #4, or now known
as “The Mountain Simbas”. Simba is the Swahili word for lion, so we are The
Mountain Simbas now. We’re doing great, we are at our second camp here at
Shira Camp, up on the Shira Plateau, in between Shira and Kibo, which is
Kilimanjaro. So we had a beautiful view out towards Shira, and a beautiful
sunset here today. We’re up at about 12,500 feet, and everybody is feeling
pretty good. We got some slight headaches here, since we just jumped up to
12,000 feet, but people are taking care of themselves, drinking lots of water,
which will help. We’ll spend tomorrow night just a little bit higher, that
will help people acclimatize a little bit more before we head up higher on the
mountain.
Everybody is doing pretty good though and having fun. It was a great day,
another beautiful day here. We had some fog roll in, in the early morning, but
for the most part it was a nice sunny day, got beautiful views out towards the
mountain up toward the peak and out towards the plains as well. Tomorrow we
will be heading towards the mountain and starting the traverse around the
mountain and we’ll be staying at Barranco Camp tomorrow evening. It’s a
beautiful camp looking up towards the Barranco Wall, and up towards the top of
the mountain.
We’ll let you know how tomorrow goes, but one shout out, Nicole wanted to
thank her mom for the camera. That was a personal shout out from Nicole, and
everybody else is having fun, missing their families and says hello back home.
We’ll talk to you tomorrow.
Hello everyone, this is Ben calling in with Kilimanjaro team #4. We are doing
great, we are at the first camp at around 10,000 feet, we got up here just a
few hours ago, this afternoon, on a beautiful sunny day as we hiked through
the jungle. Everybody did fantastic today and is feeling really good up here.
We just finished dinner, and we’re getting tucked into our tents here. And
we’ll wake up at around 6:30 tomorrow morning and pack up, have breakfast, and
head on up to Shira Camp tomorrow (it’s just over 12,000 feet).
So we’re moving up quickly here and doing fantastic, doing great, everybody
misses everyone back home and says “hello”. And tomorrow we will be moving
here from Machame Camp up to Shira Camp. So we’ll let you know how tomorrow
goes, it was a beautiful day all day today, and talk to you soon tomorrow.
Ciao!
Hello this is Don Carpenter with the July 20th, Kili Climb. And we’re here at
Shira Camp, up on the Shira Plateau, looking off at the upper cone of the
mountain. So we had another beautiful day, good hike, it’s a steep climb out
of our last camp, and everybody did really well, up that steep climb and then
the trail backs off a little bit as we approach the Shira Plateau. We rolled
into camp mid-afternoon, had some time to relax, and had some tea and popcorn,
and then some more time to relax before dinner. We just had a great dinner,
rice, vegetables, and beef stroganoff.
Everybody’s doing well, feeling good, it’s about a little after 8:00 right now
and everybody is getting ready to crawl into bed. It’s a crystal clear night,
the stars are out, and we are ready for another good day of hiking tomorrow.
So everybody’s doing well and we’ll talk to you soon.
Bye!
Earlier:
July 24:
Morning this is Don Carpenter calling with the
Alpine Ascents July 20th, Kilimanjaro Climb. It’s the morning of July 24th and
we are on the mountain. We’re waking up here at Machame Camp, we had a great
day yesterday, left the Arusha Hotel in the morning at about 8:00, had a
two-hour drive up the trailhead, got all situated, got our permits, met our
team and our guides, and started walking from Machame Gate up the trail. The
first day is up through the rain forest, and we actually had a beautiful
crystal clear day, and had some views of the mountain from a distance, so it
was a wonderful day of hiking. We rolled into Machame Camp here last night,
and had a beautiful evening, a big dinner, steaks and potatoes, and everyone
is doing great, and acclimatizing well, and enjoying the trip. We’re camped
here at 3,000m, about 10,000 feet, and we’re just waking up, we’re going to
have breakfast and then get on the trail towards Shira Camp, we’ll call you
tonight from Shira Camp, everybody’s doing well and we’ll talk to you soon,
bye.
Posted on July 23, 2012
Hello everyone!
Everyone on team #4 has arrived safely in Arusha. Today we began the trip with
a team breakfast followed by an orientation and gear check. After making sure
everyone had the proper gear for a climb of Kilimanjaro we had lunch and went
on a town tour of Arusha to see some of the local buildings, markets, and get
a taste of the local culture. After a break in the afternoon we went out to
dinner at a local restaurant and enjoyed a fantastic dinner just a few minutes
from our lovely colonial but modern hotel “The Arusha Hotel”. Tomorrow morning
we will head to the mountain to the Machame gate, where we will check in at
the national park, meet some of our Tanzanian staff and begin our first day of
hiking up to 10,000ft where we will spend our first night! We are all looking
forward to our climb during the next week and excited that we will be able to
share this experience with you all as we ascend to the roof of Africa! We will
be posting daily and also will be using a a tracking device to show you our
progress. Stay tuned as we come up with a clever team name, and make our way
up and down Kilimanjaro in the following week.
Talk to you soon,
Ben
Earlier:
Hey everyone it’s Calimanjaro here on
Kilimanjaro. It’s the 18th of July, about 8:20pm, and we are very happy to
report that everyone summited the mountain today. We were all on top at Uhuru
Peak by approximately 8:00 this morning, after 7-8 hours of climbing. We’re
now down at Millennium Camp, 12,000 feet for our last night on the mountain
and everyone is already in bed. We’re tired, we had a long day, but a great
day. Tomorrow we are going to head down to the Mweka Gate and back to Arusha
for some celebration, I’ll give you a call from there, thanks.
July 17:
Hey all it’s Calimanjaro on Kilimanjaro. We’re
having a laughing attack at high camp, Kosovo, 15.600 feet, 6:20pm. (Laughter
and shouting in background) As you guys can tell we are having lots of fun and
we are getting ready to climb up to the roof of Africa. Everybody is doing
well, we are going to head to bed for a few hours, get up at 11 and walk at
midnight. Wish us a calm, lovely evening and we’ll give you a call from our
last camp on the descent tomorrow evening.
July 16
Hey all y’all it’s Calimanjaro! (Cheers) We’re here at Karanga Camp, elevation
13,300 feet above sea level. It’s the 16th of July, and we had a great day, we
just celebrated Joel’s Birthday (more cheers) and the General pulled out some
balloon tricks to keep us entertained for the evening. We had lots of downtime
this afternoon, after a long day yesterday and in preparation for moving up to
high camp tomorrow. We are going to attempt to get a good night’s sleep, our
last, before we go up to the roof of Africa, and tomorrow morning head up to
high camp, we all send our best back home. We will give you a call from Kosovo
Camp at 15,600 feet tomorrow, thanks for following along.
July 15
Hey folks its Calimanjaro here on Day 3, we are at Barranco Camp at 12,900
feet above sea level, and everyone is doing great. We had an awesome day
today, about 8.5-9 hours on the trail, pretty good weather and just finished a
nice big meal, and we are headed to bed, we’re bushed. Tomorrow we are going
to head to Karanga Camp for our shortest day of the trip, get ourselves set up
for our summit climb. Everyone send their best back home.
July 14:
Hey all, it’s Team #2 here on Kilimanjaro! We
are no longer “Team #2″, we are now Calimanjaro, for the California contingent
in the group. We’re here at Camp 2, Shira Camp, 12,400 feet above sea level.
It is the 14th of July and we’re doing great. We had an awesome day today,
about 5 and a half hours on the trail, a bunch of downtime in camp, and we
just had a huge meal.
And with me, we have: General Gibbons, Ratatouille, Sunshine, Boogie, Ariel,
Token, Indie, Whirling Dervish, and El Jefe. Pretty soon we are headed to bed
for another good night’s sleep. Tomorrow is a long day for us to Baranco Camp.
We’ll give you a call from there.
Lala salama! ["Good Night" in Swahili]
July 11:
Hi Everyone!
The team headed out on Safari today, beginning with a flight Seronera in the
heart of Serengeti National Park.
We had an awesome climb and an awesome team this last week! My thanks,
gratitude and congrats to a wonderful group of folks. As with last season, we
brought along extra porter staff to remove excess garbage left behind by other
groups. Our team of 2 hardworking staff removed an extra 90 Kg of garbage
during the 7 days!
We are getting ready for team #2 here in Arusha, and we will depart for the
mountain on July 13th.
Asante Sana!
Eric
July 10:
Team Uhuru Y’all Celebrates Their Climb In Arusha, Prepares to Embark on
Safari
Hey everybody it’s Kilimanjaro Team Uhuru Y’all, it’s the 10th of July at
about 10pm, and we are all here at the Bailey’s Hotel, enjoying a fine dinner
and celebration together after a successful climb.
That’s a team of happy climbers.
Tomorrow they are going to head out on Safari for a four night, three day trip
through Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and Tarangire National Parks. And we’d like to
say thank you to our Tanzanian staff, and everybody here in Arusha and on the
mountain for an awesome climb. We’ll send one more cybercast, thanks for
following along everybody.
Earlier:
Team 1, Uhuru Y’all, Summits In Great Weather! Everyone Back Down Safely.
Posted on July 9, 2012 by alpineascents
Hey everyone it’s Uhuru Y’all, team #1 on Kilimanjaro. It’s the 9th of July,
Monday at about 6:30 pm and we had a great summit day today, awesome weather,
everybody did great. We are now down at our low camp on the mountain, at
Millennium, about 12,200 feet and we are going to have our last dinner here on
the mountain with our Tanzanian Crew, and tomorrow head on down to the Mweka
gate and out to Arusha so we can have our celebration dinner and get set up
for everyone to go on Safari. Uhuru would like to wish a happy birthday to
Julie and to let her know that we did it! Everyone is doing awesome and sends
their best back to everyone at home.
Team 1, Uhuru Y’all Heading to High Camp After Breakfast.
Posted on July 8, 2012 by alpineascents
Good Morning everybody it’s Uhuru Y’all here on Kilimanjaro. It is the morning
of the 8th of July at about 8:45 and we are just wrapping up breakfast and
headed up to high camp. Tonight we’ll be climbing to the roof of Africa and
we’ll give you a call after we make our ascent and reach our low camp, the
last night on the mountain. Thanks for following along.
Uhuru Y’all Reaches Karanga, Prepares for Summit Tomorrow Night.
Posted on July 7, 2012 by alpineascents
Hey everyone its Uhuru Y’all, it’s the 7th of July and we are currently at
Camp 4, Karanga, currently have some pretty high winds and a lot of dust, but
everyone is doing great. We had a short day to Karanga, today, lots of down
time, and we are getting ready to push up to high camp, and to the roof of
Africa, tomorrow night. So stay tuned for more.
Uhuru Y’all Heading To Bed At Barranco Camp After A Fantastic Day Of Climbing
Posted on July 6, 2012 by alpineascents
Hey everyone, it’s Uhuru Y’all, from Kilimanjaro… at 12,900 feet. We had a
fantastic day today, a lot of sunshine, calm weather. Everyone is doing well.
It was a very scenic day, up to about 15,000 feet, back down here to 12,900.
It’s just before 9 o’clock, everyone’s headed to bed. I’ve got some tired
climbers and we’re going to get a good night’s sleep. And hopefully we’ll have
some more beautiful weather tomorrow, the shortest day of the trip, on up to
Karanga Camp at 13,300 feet.
Everyone sends their best back home, Ciao for now!
Team 1, Uhuru Y’all, Enjoying Themselves At Camp 2
Posted on July 5, 2012 by alpineascents
Hey everyone, it’s Team #1 here on Kilimanjaro! It’s the 5th of July and we
are at Camp 2, Shira Camp (12,450 feet). Everybody is doing fannntastic! We’re
having a few phone difficulties, so we weren’t able to cybercast in last
night, apologize for that. But we wanted to let you know that we’re all
thinking of you, and we celebrated the 4th of July here, in Tanzania, on
Kilimanjaro.
So we’ve decided on a team name, we will no longer be Team #1, we are team
Uhuru Y’all. “Y’all” for the southern contingent in this group, and “uhuru”
means “freedom” in Swahili… so Uhuru Y’all.
Tomorrow we’re looking forward to another great day, weather looks fantastic
today. Tomorrow we’re going to climb up to about 15,000 feet, and then descend
down to Barranco Camp, which is one of our longer… Transmission ends.
Machame Camp Arrival
Posted on July 4, 2012 by alpineascents
Team 1 wishes everyone a Happy Fourth of July! The team enjoyed the first day
trekking through the gorgeous rainforest from Machame Gate to Machame Camp. We
are working on a satellite phone problem that came up, but they did report
back that everyone is safe and happy celebrating the holiday.
Team 1 arrives in Arusha
Posted on July 3, 2012 by alpineascents
A warm greetings from Arusha Tanzania everyone. I arrived on Saturday to begin
the prep for our busy Summer 2012 season. Most of team 1 arrived fine last
night (Monday), with 1 member having arrived a few days earlier and enjoying
some relaxation African style. Everyone is excited to get to the mountain! 3
folks are still waiting on luggage from KLM, so keep your fingers crossed it
comes on the flight tonight!
Today we had our orientation here at the hotel, followed by gear checks, and a
walking town tour. Tonight we will enjoy our first dinner together as a team,
and hopefully a great nights sleep before we head out tomorrow for
Kilimanjaro.
Our first day of trekking will begin at the Machame gate, elevation 6,400′,
ending at Machame camp 10,000′ and about 6 hours. Most of tomorrow is under
the canopy of the rain forest, lush and beautiful.
We will be sending in a cybercast each day, so keep tuning in as we ascend to
the roof of Africa together.
All The Best!
Eric and Team #1
Team 1 - Departing 7/1/2012
Guide: Eric Murphy
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Matthew Garvin
Jeff Garvin
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