
Photographed in Mount Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania, near the summit.
Tamerlin, blog We’ll be hiking to the summit of Kilimanjaro via the Rongai route, which is going to be a tough trip any way you slice it. We’ll be going from 6397 feet to 19,340 feet, so altitude and cold will be significant issues in addition to the physical demands of the hike itself.
We hiked with 3000 feet of elevation gain each day until summit day. That day we gained 2000. The camp that night was at around 15,500 feet. So we had *some* acclimation time, but the route we were on is normally scheduled to be a day longer than we had, so we had a bit less acclimation time than was ideal. I was actually fine until close to Gilman's Point when I ran out of water and started feeling the altitude sickness setting in. (Drinking water made it go away, but that stopped working when I ran out of water to drink.)ConnieD wrote: Were you okay at altitude?? Did you have a basecamp, at altitude, to adjust??