Day 5 - Why?

The question all of us were asking ourselves. By now all bar one of had experienced some form of altitude sickness. Dinner for the first time was a somber affair, we were all fighting personal battles. The one thing we shared was the stark drop in temperature. Everyone was wrapped up in there thermals for dinner!

This is tough don't let anyone describe it as a walk.

I awoke in the middle of the night with a big headache but at least now I could breathe. By morning this had turned to nausea. This felt like a very bad hang over. It required all my efforts to pack my bags. Today we set off for Kebo the base camp of Kili.

Today's walk took us into arid fields of ash more reminiscent to a Mars landscape than Earth. Here too another reminder of the extremities of our environment, the wreckage of a light aircraft. It had exceed its maximum height of 4,000m with tragic consequences.

We are now at 4,700m at base camp. The last two hours we straight with the teasing sight of our route up Kili. The last section of path ramped up steeply, some of us found this very hard.

It hit Peter very hard, he felt his heart racing to extraordinary levels, with hereditary problems in this area he has very sensibly decided this is his end.