February 2, 2006: Shira Camp Arrival

We more or less stumbled/wandered into Shira camp in mid-afternoon. We were still surrounded by the cloud line and so the views were rather unspectacular. However, this belied the views that were to materialize a few hours later at sunset. We were greeted by a winged sentinel, the white necked raven. Although ground fauna were few and far between, these birds were still abundant, jockeying for whatever scraps were left unattended by the trekkers. Unlike Machame Huts, vegetation was sparse at this camp site. You could see tents sprawled over a flat 1/4 mile stretch of rocky earth when the clouds slowly started to lift.

One year anniversary of Kilimanjaro summit day

This is being posted at 10:45 pm EST on February 5. In Tanzania it is 6:50 am, February 6th; almost one year exactly that Jen, Ajay, Jeremiah and I summited Mt Kilimanjaro.

If you happen to be waking up in Moshi, and the early morning clouds are just right... this is what you would see. You would peer towards the summit and wonder who was standing there- on top of the world for a day.