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Team on the summit of Kibo - Uhuru - at 5,895m.  It took us 7:15 hours to climb from Kibo hut after leaving at midnight!

A line of human ants crawls around the crater rim

Porters getting organised at the start of the Rongai Route

First morning camping.  After having been below the clouds in the morning the sky was clear and it was the first chance to see Mawenzi and Kibo

Camping above the clouds at Kikelewa Caves (3,660m)

Jagged spires of Mawenzi as we headed over from Kikelewa Caves on the Rongai Route

Mawenzi Tarn campsite from about 4,550m on the North ridge of Mawenzi on an acclimatization walk

Kilimanjaro is made of 3 volanoes: Shira, which has collapsed; Mawenzi; and Kibo, which is the famous conical peak of Kili

Crossing the Saddle from Mawenzi Tarn campsite to Kibo hut 

Dawn just above Stella Point 

Summit glaciers on Kibo - you can also see the ash-pit crater, which includes hot fumaroles

View across the summit crater of Kibo from Uhuru

Summit glaciers & cloudy Tanzania below (a long way below) 

Summit glaciers

Mawenzi and the saddle from Gilman's Point (5,650m)

Climbing team

For the 10 of us there were 37 porters.  Here is the team on the final morning as we were heading down to Marangu 

Sunset at the end of summit day.  It was a relief to be down at Horombo after 3 days over 4,000m

Strange high altitude plants called selous

Rain forest on the way down

Waterfall just outside the village of Marangu.  The water comes from Kili

Park gate at Marangu.  The park is flanked by rain forest and it really rains a lot 

Kili is so large that it's even higher than the plane from Nairobi flies!