Do you remember holidays when you were young? In my family as a child, for as long as I can remember, we had a two week holiday every year without fail. It was organised well in advance, always by the seaside, (the destination changing as my father earned more) and we all looked forward to it for months. We would discuss what we were going to do while we were away, buy new cloths for the occasion, each of the children would have some new toy to take with them and we would pack and repack a week in advance. These holidays lasted until I was old enough to prefer staying with my girlfriend at home, but I remember them all as if they happened yesterday.That tradition of annual holidays has slipped away… until now. Climbing Kilimanjaro is just the same. We have been planning this “holiday” for months now. We know every detail, have discussed every eventuality, trained daily to be fit enough, bought new cloths, and Sheila and I have bought each other a new “toy” to take with us for the three days in
Not only that… How many of you have planned a holiday in such detail that you have a blog to record the occasion? Such Fun!
We have a week to go before we leave so we are walking every night. I know we are fit enough but the feeling is that if we work harder now it will be easier on that dreaded last few meters to the summit from midnight on the 23rd January.
I managed to get hold of the Stedman book on trekking up Kilimanjaro and I recommend it to anybody thinking of doing the same. Of course, I can’t tell you how accurate it is until I come done on the 24th but it is a great read.
I am still working on converting one of my walking poles to a camera tripod. I have a light aluminium tripod that travelled
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