Mount Kilimanjaro Trek August 2010 Katy’s Blog This blog was written on a daily basis, sometimes under great duress, in stupidly cold or hot temperatures, but starting on day 1, 6,000 feet up above Amsterdam on the plane on the way to Tanzania, and culminating on the reverse journey...I will try to entertain, but I can’t make any promises except an honest account of 9 days away from home, with one aim, to get to the top of the highest free standing mountain in the world...and back down again. Alive. Day 1 In one of the early months of 2010 (I can’t remember which one, but I do know that today seemed a hell of a long way off at the time), I and 4 other intrepid (read naive) him!mers decided/agreed to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in
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