Sunrise on Mount Kilimanjaro

[Antarctican]

For people climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, the day one makes the climb to the summit is grueling. We left camp at 11:00 p.m and reached the summit the next morning at 7:30 a.m. These pictures were taken when the sun rose as we approached the summit. You can see that we are above the clouds.

6:15 a.m.
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7672/dscn0081prlj6.jpg

6:24 a.m.
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/828/dscn0083pcrpu3.jpg

6:25 a.m.
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/7007/dscn0084prcg6.jpg

7:30 Tired, but happy (Not the best pic, especially with the dorky hat, but it's the only summit picture I have). It was about 10:30 a.m. before we climbed back down and reached camp. After a short rest and some lunch, we had to hike 10 km to our next campsite.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/373/dscn0087praj6.jpg

[Terri]

:eek: I dub thee: "Iron Woman". That is quite a climb, and hiking adventure!

Though I've done a lot of backpacking, I've never done an ascent like this. How breathtaking it must have been to arrive at the summit at dawn. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!

And hey, I happen to like the hat. :sillysmile:

More pics from the adventure?

[Karissa]

Wow these are beautiful! You'd have had to have drug my tail up there. I'm so out of shape.

Anyone else find it interesting that the Toronto lady is in Africa?

[Antarctican]

Anyone else find it interesting that the Toronto lady is in Africa?Was in Africa. The trip was actually two years ago. And I sure am not an Iron Woman...never really hiked or camped or backpacked before that trip, so it was an 'experience', that's for sure!

[Terri]

The trip was actually two years ago.
Ah, that explains why the little bear didn't make it, eh? :wink:

[Antarctican]

That's right, I didn't adopt Colin until later that year! http://www.petsandwildlifeforum.com/images/smilies/smileys/l_teddy.gif He would have needed his own porter, and he eats like a, well, bear, so perhaps it's best he didn't make the climb.

[Karissa]

Bear? Huh?

[Tangerini]

Gorgeous! I would happily hang those on my wall. (Well maybe not the one of you since we've yet to meet and it might be a bit, uh, weird.)

[Alex]

I envy you. That mountain is still on my list!

I really like the second image for the structures and colours. Although the colours appear a tad too intense on my screen. When I turn down saturation a bit, it is beautiful.

[Antarctican]

It really looked like that...they were indeed intense colours.

[Alex]

oh, great, so maybe that is some colour related to the extreme altitude! :)