Hi, this is John with the 8/22 Kili climb crew. We’re sitting here in our big dome tent. We had a little bit of trouble today. We couldn’t find a fourth for cards here this evening, but we seemed to have surmounted the difficulties and we’re marching on. Everybody had a good day.
We did the long, long, slow uphill morning climb to Lava Tower where we went on up through the mist and the wind and got to the top, weren’t able to see the upper mountain from there unfortunately, but that’s the way it goes sometimes. We had a good climb anyway. It involves sort of third class scrambling which means that you use your hands a little bit sometimes for balance but it’s not technical and not real difficult. Everybody did very well.
I’m being given the “yeah, yeah come on, ya know we’re waiting for our little shout out signal here” so here we go:
(Shout outs from Team Members in background.)
The others are off somewhere; I think they’re in their tents waiting for soup and dinner. Got in nice and early today, which is nice for everybody. So everybody’s doing well. Tomorrow we’re heading up the Barranco Wall and over to Karanga where we expect to have a nice afternoon and get ourselves ready for the next day, which is summit.
So talk to you then! Bye bye.
