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kilimanjaro - 9th july - climb day 4

After the long previous day, July 9th was a relatively short day to Karanga Camp but had the infamous 'breakfast wall' at it's start.

 

As always, click on the photo for a larger sized image in a new window. All photos resized for the web. The daily tweets are at the end of the page.

morning at Barranco Camp

morning at Karranga camp wioth toilet tent

Morning at Barranco camp - note the ice on the tents

early morning at the campsite

Rashid preparing breakfast

Breakfast wall from campsite

Rashid preparing breakfast

breakfast wall from campsite

breakfast wall close up

close up of pinch point on breakfast wall

a closer view

an closer still

Barrango campsite from breakfast wall

Tom and Pat on breakfast wall

the camp site from breakfast wall

Tom & Pat on the wall

Lyn climbing on the wall

scrabbling up breakfast wall

Lyn starts a scrabble

scrabbling up the wall

Kevin looks determined on breakfast wall

queue on breakfast wall

Kevin on breakfast wall

a queue on breakfast wall

on top of breakfast wall

at the top of breakfast wall

at the top of breakfast wall

at the top of breakfast wall

Kili at the top of breakfast wall

Dave & KK at the top of breakfast wall - Kili backdrop

Lyn at the top of breakfast wall

Dave & KK at the top of the wall

then it was back down again

KK slipped over

it was never level

KK slipped over on her way down

going down

going down with ruote back up visible

Tom was more careful

you can just see the path back up in the top right hand corner of the photo

Arriving at Karanga camp

Tea at Karanga camp

arriving at Karanga camp

tea at Karanga camp

Raven at Karanga camp

Toilet tent at Karanga camp

Raven at Karanga

toilet tent view a view

Karanga camp

Kili from Karanga

view of Karanga camp

Kili from Karanga

view of Karanga from above

Stone cairns

Karanga camp from the ridge

stone cairns are everywhere

 

 And so ended climb day 4. The next day was the short walk to Barafu camp from where we aim from the summit.

 

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