Day Two - Mti Mkubwa to Shira Camp

Day Two

I didn't really sleep last night as it was so noisy with chatter and the guides tent was right next to my tent and one of them was snoring like a big snoring thing all night and then from 5am it was noisier than Piccadilly Circus at lunchtime as all the porters start packing up and preparing breakfast.

We set off just after 815am and took us about 5 hours to get to Shira Camp.  We arrived and had lunch and then got a wee kip before we had to do our afternoon acclimatisation walk, I am sleeping better in the afternoon than at night. On our way to Shira Camp we got to see the mountain clearly for the first time - its HUGE!

Here is a video of us just after we set off on Day 2.  You will need to cut and paste the link below into your browser - too big for blogger.com to upload apparently! 

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And its a long way to Tipperary!!

This pic was taken on our acclimatisation walk.

The World Tallest Freestanding Mountain!

Back from our acclimatisation walk for dinner and bed, head is exhausted but body feels ok even though I had an almighty trip where my foot got stuck in a rock so I fell forward but managed to get my hands out in front and the other leg so I sort of fell in crouch position and then was able to remove my foot from the rock!  Lindsay came running over and asked if I was ok and righted my hat in a motherly type of way and then sent me on my way. Was very funny and I needed a pee so couldn't laugh too much!

The moon is amazing tonight and the sky is clear but it will probably be really cold and didn't sleep last night because I was cold so I am now in my thermals with my jacket on and my hat on and we all filled our water bottles with hot water so we have a wee bit of heat for now.

Day two was amazing and at times hard and as we reached over 3000m I could feel the altitude pushing on my head and the lactic acid burn in my legs took longer to go away.  Tomorrow we walk the plateau so we can see our end point but it's at 4200m so we have to take our time and walk pole pole.

Today was 23500 steps, 15.6km and the equivalent of 74 flights of stairs which seems so much less than yesterday but we seemed to go much higher up today! Not sure how the app calculates the floors.

suzxxx