Day Five - Barranco Camp to Karanga Camp

Day 5

We climbed the Barranco Wall which was no mean feat, actually what does 'mean feat' mean??

We had to climb all the way up and then we had to go all the way down then all the way back up to reach camp - someone should build a bridge.

I did change to my sturdier boots today because we are climbing the the wall so for the first time I had sore feet and my Mortons Neuroma played up properly but it was the first time it was really sore so that is not bad considering the distance we have come and how much uphill and downhill we have done.  Back to my Karrimores tomorrow, they are like wearing slippers as they are so worn in.

Today was great fun although at times tough.  We were climbing up and then down rocks and there was a bit of scrambling to be done and sometimes with a shear drop on one side, it was definitely the most interesting day and gave us a taste of climbing which I think we will pick up when we are home.  

Here we are at the top of the Barranco Wall. Flying high!

We walked for 4 hours today and arrived at Karanga, which means peanut apparently!, camp which is 3992m.

We arrived and signed in and saw the summit up close, it was a bit over overwhelming as it is so close and so HUGE.

We didn't have an acclimatisation walk today so we played cards - Lindsay taught us to play Cheat and I was rubbish at it, we played Scabby Queen and all got a turn at being the queen and then we played trumps.  It kept us out of mischief anyway and we did some stretches at the Camp sign.

The sky tonight was amazing once the cloud cleared and Kili was clear hard to believe that from Makao Farm I was looking at it and now I am here and tomorrow night at this time I will be getting ready to summit.

We had our oxygen levels taken again, I was a bit less than before at 92% and heart rate of 75bpm, we are back at 4000m so its weird its changed but at least my body is showing some change.  Lindsay was 90% and 100bpm heart rate which is better than she was, I can't remember what Ash's was but she was doing better than the first reading so its great everyone is adjusting.

12019 steps 

88 flights of stairs - really?  The app doesn't really work for trekking I think!!

8km

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