The Adventure Begins

Climbing Kilimanjaro has always been an ambition of mine. I’m not sure when I first promised myself that one day I would climb it, I just know that for as long as I can remember I was sure that I would one day make it to the roof of Africa. Or in the very least attempt it. So, following a few (too many!) glasses of bubbly at our annual Christmas gathering my best friend and I decided 2015 was the year.

In all honestly I’m not sure we were 100% convinced we would get round to it, and our friends and family certainly thought it was just another one of our crazy ideas.

As the champagne wore off and the months flew by I think even Linzi and I were surprised when we actually booked this unique “Holiday” in June, giving ourselves just 3 months to train before attempting to summit the worlds highest free standing mountain.

Arriving in Tanzania

So that’s how we find ourselves in Tanzania, in September, at the foot of a 5,895 metre (19,341 ft) dormant volcano (not extinct! This was news to me!), with 8 days to climb through four climatic zones from equatorial rainforest, to heather and moorland, then highland desert before finally summiting in the glacial arctic zone. We also need to come back down again but somehow this never really featured in any of our plans!!

We chose to climb the Lemosho Route which is lesser walked than other routes but is widely considered to be the best route on Mount Kilimanjaro due to its beauty and remoteness.

Lemosho Route

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