http://www.mtkilimanjarologue.com/routes/crater-camp-on-kilimanjaro.html One stop guide to climbing Mt Kilimanjaro Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.mtkilimanjarologue.com/routes/crater-camp-on-kilimanjaro.html/comment-page-1#comment-76 Ed Abell Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:29:16 +0000 http://www.mtkilimanjarologue.com/routes/crater-camp-on-kilimanjaro.html#comment-76 My 17 year old son and I designed our trip to scale the Western Breach and over night on the crater. I'd read enough mountain climbing books over the years, I had to experience it. I didn't fancy the midnight slog from Barafu. Our outfitter was prepared and we had sleeping bags rated to -20 degrees. After the reaffirmation of life experience cresting the Breach we wandered the crater top over the show fields and viewed the Reusch Crater and we have stunning images of the glaciers. Our bags kept us warm but we didn't sleep. If we fell in to deep sleep we were jolted awake with the feeling of suffication. A common altitude effect. My son and I talked all night and when we went out to pee the glaciers were illuminated in a cobalt blue with the millions of stars just out of reach. We would jump back into our warm bags and revel in the fact we were on top of Kilimanjaro! It was a night we battled a common foe (alitiude effect) and bonded beyond the spoken word...unforgetable. It's not a place you really go to sleep as much as experience. That night and the Breach climb remain the coolest thing we have ever done. My 17 year old son and I designed our trip to scale the Western Breach and over night on the crater. I’d read enough mountain climbing books over the years, I had to experience it. I didn’t fancy the midnight slog from Barafu.
Our outfitter was prepared and we had sleeping bags rated to -20 degrees.
After the reaffirmation of life experience cresting the Breach we wandered the crater top over the show fields and viewed the Reusch Crater and we have stunning images of the glaciers.
Our bags kept us warm but we didn’t sleep. If we fell in to deep sleep we were jolted awake with the feeling of suffication.
A common altitude effect. My son and I talked all night and when we went out to pee the glaciers were illuminated in a cobalt blue with the millions of stars just out of reach.
We would jump back into our warm bags and revel in the fact we were on top of Kilimanjaro!
It was a night we battled a common foe (alitiude effect) and bonded beyond the spoken word…unforgetable.
It’s not a place you really go to sleep as much as experience.
That night and the Breach climb remain the coolest thing we have ever done.

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