Mt. Kilimanjaro - Day 3

She gave us:
Freezing cold temperatures, rapidly thinning air, low visibility
with extreme cloud cover, and a few minutes, just a few minutes of:
awe inspiring beauty!
 

Part of the glacier valley, formed during
the last ice age. It was 2 miles across
and miles upon miles long!


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A pleasure plant I think they call this.
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Don't get the scale wrong, these plants
are over 13' tall!.
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3 degrees south latitude - who'd
have thought?.
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- Bonnie and Bruce await for Kili to
show herself in the late afternoon light.
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Aaah, this was the one I was
waiting for...

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As quickly as she posed for us above, she
shrouded herself back in mystery
moments thereafter.
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- The last few minutes of light, and any
semblance of heat whatsoever..

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The night I wanted to die, due to hypoxia.
We all still needed to fill our water
bottles fast, before the giant jug
of water froze.

In all my years of growing up in Boston,
and my early winter travels to Iceland,
I never remember a night so cold
as this.

Wus.


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