Author: Gary

Creating this blog to keep our family updated while we climb Kilimanjaro and explore Africa for half of a month with Gabe and Luke Ervin.

Hopefully where we will be in 6 days. 

Day 1 getting there Gary 3:04 a.m., Amsterdam layover. "See that mountain over there, yeah, one of these days I'm going to climb that mountain" I heard this on the…

Day 3 5:30 a.m., writing from Mandara HutYesterday we started our climb after a wonderful night’s, sleep, hot shower, and meal (the last for 6 days). We met our guide…

Finally out of the rainforest, breakdowns, and Mr. Chow joins us.Start of the day, the sky cleared and we could see the stars and the rest of the camp. Looked…

We have been eating a lot of Ibuprofen and little food. Sore muscles and headaches. We had a great day today as we climbed to Zebra Rock at 16,000 ft.…

We get to the hut at 2 p.m. It is cold and windy/ Gabe is really feeling bad. The last few hundred yards take forever. Kibo is a hard place.…

Day 7The Climb, pole poleOur time finally comes. We get ready quickly, since we slept in most of our clothes already. All we had to put on was our outer…

Got a little carried away so next 3 days will be short with pictures.We landed in Zanzibar amongst the disorganized chaos that I have learned to love about Africa.   Zanzibar…

We return to the mainland for our last three days. We stay in a lodge, The Manor at Ngorongoro, outside the rim of the crater. The lodge is on a…