Kilimanjaro Group Photos - Roaming Together - So Much World, So Little Time

Posted on September 11, 2017December 7, 2020 by jim

Photos from the group’s cameras and cell phones, credits in meta tags.

It’s always great to get other’s perspectives instead of relying on what I see in my camera lens!

Welcome to Tanzania

The staff at the local Indian/Italian (crazy mix eh?) restaurant in Moshi get creative on Ashley’s coffee.

Fresh and Ready

The group looks so fresh and ready here!

Forest Camp

Only 3 hours into our hike, we still all look fresh and ready.

Data

Always reliable for the data – time, temperature, altitude, distance, good looks.

Hiking Pals

Clay and Ashley at Big Tree Camp

The man himself

Dave poses at Shira 1 Camp

Breakfast!

Crepes, orange, bananas, hard boiled eggs, our first breakfast during our hike.

Still Moving

Still fresh into our trip, with everybody looking energetic and excited

Tent City

One of our stops

Mmmmmm

Dave did a great job capturing our meals, this is yet another wonderful meal prepared by our chef Eric

Smiles

The group all smiles

Fajitas

Fajitas for dinner!

Ducks in a Row

A neat line of tents in a row

Pakoras

I’m not sure what the Swahili name for these was, but I think I know them as Pakoras or Samosas

Rock. Stars.

Nemes gets jiggy with it, while Joseph remains stoic as always. What a great group to have with us on the mountain!

Potatoes

Normally I don’t eat potatoes, but Eric did quite a number on these.

Flora

Dave got this great shot of a Giant Lobelia core.

Chicken

Porters did a resupply run from Moshi, bringing fresh meals up to us.

Still Smiling

We’re all still smiling among the Giant Lobelias

Astrophotography

It looks like I’m taking astrophotography shots here.

Poseurs

Dave and Ashley posting in front of the mountain

One of me

Very few photos of me out there

Ummmm

I won’t explain this photo, the group knows what it is 🙂

Yummy

Grilled cheese and Pakoras

Deep in Thought

A great shot of Ashley during some downtime. The yellow tent really jacks up the white balance, hence the black and white (which works well here)

Wash Time

This is what you come back to if you go for an afternoon hike while your tent-mate decides to do some laundry…

Bath Time

Clay does a mid-week sponge bath in a small water basin.

More Meals

Yet another meal shot from Dave

Yes, Yes, Yes, No, No, No!

I have so many Austin Powers captions for this photo that I just have to sit back and let crowdsourcing come up with one here.

Fun!

Now this picture just screams fun! Everybody has to do the mandatory "jump in the air" photo on a climb like this.

Mid-Mountain Fries

French Fries on the Mountain

Dessert

Freshly made brownies with watermelon.

Barafu Camp

Notice how cold everyone looks in this photo, and we’re only at 15,000 feet!

When Ya Gotta Go…

Making the best use of the hole-in-the-floor "Tourists Toilets"

Early Halloween

It looks like Halloween came early this year

Popcorn

We always had a freshly popped plate of popcorn waiting for us when we made it to camp in the afternoon.

Mountain Monsters

Monstrous crows were everywhere on the mountain

Italian Supper

Spaghetti tonight!

Brrrrrr

Going to sleep at Barafu Camp, already down to 23 degrees at 15,000 feet. The coldest I saw was 8 degrees at Crater Camp at 18,500 feet, which was probably -30 wind chill with the crazy wind up there.

Nighttime Fun

Our guides had us check our oxygen saturation morning and night. Starting somewhere between 96 and 99%, we could see our saturation drop as we gained altitude. It’s also interesting to see your heart rate go up to try to provide more oxygen to your body, usually I’m around 47-55 resting and my resting rate was in the 80s at altitude.

The Drop

Clay watching his oxygen saturation drop. Despite being healthy, in shape, and having done other high altitude climbs, he was the unlucky one of the group with low saturation throughout the climb. Always fun to watch a doctor self-diagnose themself!

Living Life

You need to make life friends that will climb a mountain with you and make awesome photos like this with you!

Mountain Surf

Watching the clouds roll off the mountain like the pipe on a good surf wave.

Silly

Sometimes I get silly.

Ready for the Conquest

Ashley poses

Roughing It

I’m looking pretty scrubby here with my mountain man beard. This got shaved the minute I got back to civilization.

In Front of the Glaciers

Posing in front of the glaciers

Dave at the Top

A great shot of Dave at the Kilimanjaro summit.

Buds

Dave and I at the peak

Just Me

I pose by myself for a summit shot.

Pretty at the Peak

Ashley poses with the Kili summit sign

The Whole Team

Our entire team including Nemes, Joseph, and Gaudence.

Peak Pano

Clay got this great panorama of us trekking from Stella Point to Uhuru Peak

That Way

Nemes points out an item of interest on the Furtwangler Glacier

Ice

Dave On Ice

I don’t want to know

I’m hoping that Clay is taking a photo here.

Blue Man Group

Clay is his own Blue Man Group on this wall of blue ice at the Furtwangler Glacier

At the Furrwangler

I pose in front of the west wall of the Furtwangler Glacier. Amazing colors and hue, and the sheer immensity of this chunk of ice sitting on a dry dusty volcanic cone is a wonder in isself.