We woke up in the morning at the Horombo camp, 3700 meters in the air, without much to do that day. We were feeling pretty good so long as we ignored the fact that everyone in our room woke up at least three times in the night to go pee. The best part of the [...]
Mt Kilimanjaro- Day 2
March 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
After a hectic day one, we enjoyed a good nights sleep at the first camp and woke refreshed and ready to go. Hilly but manageable, the hike to Horombo huts was relatively easy and perhaps the most picturesque of the entire hike. We climbed from 2700m to 3700m, from rain forest to sub-alpine vegetation somewhere [...]
Mt Kilimanjaro – Day 1
March 21, 2010 By 3 Comments
I really don’t know what we were thinking. Somehow, we knew since the beginning that we would give Mt. Kilimanjaro the old college try. It stood there, standing at nearly 20,000 feet, blocking our view of Kenya. With the one year mark of this trip nearly upon us, we ponied up what felt like our [...]
Torres del Paine
November 16, 2009 By 3 Comments
To call ourselves hikers and not go to Torres del Paine National Park in Chile would be the fastest way to loose our credibility. So despite the awful weather, we crossed yet again into Chile arriving in Puerto Natales in the middle of yet again, another snowfall. Famous for its rock structures (the torres or [...]
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