Message received from Sean this evening ‘It’s been a great day.  We got completely drenched and frozen to the bone but we’re in our toasty sleeping bags now and relishing the warmth after a hard day. We had chicken and veg for dinner.’

Shortly after leaving the camp, the forest starts thinning and is replaced by rockier terrain, sparser undergrowth and scraggly, moss-covered trees. The path continues along a narrow ridge and as they gain higher altitude, they’ll catch glimpses of Kili. The path then flattens as they approach Barranco Valley. From the Umbwe ridge, the route descends […]

Iain Buchan – thumbs up on Kili

Message from Sean late this afternoon – ‘We’ve had a brilliant day with a smidgeon of rain in the forest.  Lots of laughs.  Rita and the gals are keen botanists and so we’ve had  fun checking out all the vegetation under the canopy…’

After breakfast at the Protea Aishi hotel, the team will be driven to the Umbwe gate (1800m) while passing through banana and coffee plantations.  On arrival at the gate they’ll all sign the register while the porters get the food and gear ready. The route initially follows a forestry track winding up through the natural […]

Heard from Sean at 0650 this morning saying all was on track and they were walking to the Mango international boarding gates.  They land in Zanzibar at 1200 today and then have a few hours to have lunch at the water’s edge before departing Zanz at 1700 this afternoon for Kilimanjaro via Dar es Salaam.  […]

Sean and the Buchan/Deane family are in the last stages of gear packing before departure from Durban to Joburg this afternoon.  Overnight at the O R Tambo Protea  and then off to Kilimanjaro tomorrow with a stop over for lunch in Zanzibar.  This is Sean’s 24th Kili expedition and the highest mountain in Africa is […]