Team: Kili Drips 100% success on the summit!

Hello Everyone,

We had a fantastic, but sometimes windy, summit day today with 100% success! We summited at 6:30am this morning in perfect timing to watch the sunrise as we were nearly at the summit. This has been a very strong team that has unknowingly been breaking time records throughout this week. I’m joking a little but we are now at our final camp at 10,000ft at 2pm, which is really fast to descend to here from the summit! The team is tired but now they have time to rest before our last dinner on the mountain. Early tomorrow morning we will begin our last hike down to Mweka gate where we will have a celebration with our entire crew before driving back to the hotel in Arusha. I will send some more photos tomorrow. Thanks for following along!

Ben Jones

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