{"id":81,"date":"2008-11-26T22:31:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T02:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/?p=81"},"modified":"2011-03-19T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T17:51:50","slug":"kilimanjaro-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/26\/kilimanjaro-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilimanjaro Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 1991, on one of my home-leave trips back to the States from Madagascar, I stopped off in Tanzania to rendezvous with 2 friends to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was an unbelievable climb and all three of us made it (about half don’t due to altitude sickness).\u00a0 I’ve converted the old video I took of the climb and uploaded them.<\/p>\n

The first video<\/a> is of the last 4000 feet to the summit.\u00a0 On the eve of the accent, one tries to sleep from 3PM – midnight at around 15000 feet.\u00a0 Then at midnight you climb up the loose volcanic scree and get to Gilman’s point on the east side of the crater rim for a magnificent sunrise.\u00a0 From Gilman’s point it is another 2 hours around the rim to Uhuru peak, the top of Africa at 19340 feet.<\/p>\n

The second video is of the whole climb<\/a>, starting in Arusha and Moshi then entering the national park on the Marangu route.\u00a0 The video is 45 minutes long and gives you an idea of the type of climb we faced.\u00a0 One starts at around 5000 feet and makes their way up to the top in 4 days, going through 4 unique climate zones: rainforest, tundra, high desert then glacial ice cap.\u00a0 Each climate zone had its own beauty.\u00a0 Combined with great friends, Charlie Whelan and John Davison, it was an experience of a lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 1991, on one of my home-leave trips back to the States from Madagascar, I stopped off in Tanzania to rendezvous with 2 friends to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. It was an unbelievable climb and all three of us made it (about half don’t due to altitude sickness).\u00a0 I’ve converted the old video I took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}