Mount Kilimanjaro: The Grand Finale!
If you follow my on social media, you already know that I summited Mt. Kilimanjaro and reached the highest point in Africa, in fact, here is a picture to remind you.... What you don't know, however, is what it took to get there. Let's start with Day 5 on the mountain. Day 5 is a weird day. You get up early, you hike only 4ish kilometers, and then you arrive at camp and sit down to lunch/dinner. You're probably thinking what a nice short day, gets lost of rest before the summit....yes and no. After lunch you have a little down time, and then you go to sleep at 5 pm, so that you can wake up around 11 pm to head to the summit. At lunch/dinner our guides tried to prepare us for way lay ahead, a long slow journey to the top. They told us to wear all of our clothes, seriously they said all of your clothes, to make sure that we drank a liter of water before we left, and that there would be no breakfast (breakfast would've been at 11pm), only snacks. They also told us that the...
