As you can see from the picture on the left I successfully managed to summit mount Kilimanjaro on Thursday October 23rd, 2008 @ 07:58 local time (05:58 BST).

This was the hardest thing I've ever done, in particular the 30 hours or so that began at 0600 hrs Wednesday 22nd where we climbed the Barranco Wall to find that at the top it was a descent into another valley and then up again and then finally down and up again to the Barafu Camp - purched on a ridge at 4,600mtrs and blowing a gale @ 17:30pm. By 7pm we had been fed and watered and sent to our tents for 4 hours rest! Dragged out at 11pm to be ready for a midnight push for the summit - reached about 8 hours laters all to get 5 minutes at the top for a quick photo in temperatures well below zero!

By late afternoon we we back down to the last camp where there was a welcome beer waiting for us!