After singing and dancing Team K-1 heads to bed at a snowy High Camp with crossed fingers for good weather for their summit bid

Hey everyone, it’s K-1 coming at you from High Camp/Kosovo Camp (15,700 feet) here on Kilimanjaro. It’s the 15th of December. We’re all up here at High Camp just having had some dinner and getting ready to go to bed. We’re going to get up in a few hours and head for the top of this mountain.

We are experiencing on Kilimanjaro some rather dramatic weather conditions, ots of snow on the ground and a very wintery looking Kilimanjaro. Keep your fingers crossed for some good weather for us.

We’ve got one person who’d like to give a shout out back home:

“Hey, this is Jim Beget from Fairbanks, Alaska. I know it’s -33° in Fairbanks today, so even though we’ve had two inches of snow here, I know it’s worse somewhere else. And that’s always a very satisfying feeling.

The high point of the trip for me so far was yesterday and we actually had sunshine. They took down the tent. We could see Kilimanjaro. We had dancing and singing from the porters, it was fabulous! So we’re all having a good time.

And anybody else here want to say something, Nichole? (asked in background)
Okay, thank you!”

Thanks for following along everybody. Wish us some good weather conditions tonight for our summit and we’ll give you a shout from our low camp at Millennium tomorrow night after we summit.

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