Tue, 01 Dec 2020

Kilimanjaro Trip Report, 2011

No moon, no stars, only blackness. Freezing, failing headlamps reveal only a couple of meters of terrain around me. The 60kmph wind howls, cutting off speech and chilling us through to the core; it supports my weight when I lean into it, threatens to topple me if I don't. One foot in front of the other, I trudge onward.