After a lot of training on Gower and in Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons the time has arrived to pack and rest before finally flying to Tanzania in Africa this Friday 15th Feb 2008. We will be 13 guys supported by our Tanzanian guides and porters setting out on Sunday for a hopeful ascent of Kilimanjaro summit by early hours Thursday morning. Snowcapped Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain at 19,335ft (5,895m), it is the world's tallest free standing mountain and is roughly the same height as Everest base camp. (Everest @ 30,000 ft).If you have already sponsored us then thank you very much - It will form a huge part of the motivation required to leave a freezing tent (-20C) and sleeping bag at the Kibo hut Bivouac (4,700m) at midnight. We will then push in frozen darkness and very thin air for an African dawn at the summit over 1,200m away, then descend a very tricky 2,000m of scree to rest some 16 hours later. The main physical challenges are potentially lethal altitude sickness, injury, illness and fatigue.
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