What an incredible experience, can’t thank the Altezza team enough for getting our group to the top of Kilimanjaro. Nothing was ever to much or to hard,. The team all kept on telling us we are all here to support you to achieve your goal of getting to the summit. From the start of booking, thanks Angelina to our team up the mountain lead by our mountain guides Rashid and Frank. Our guides knowledge of the mountain it’s history, wildlife and vegetation, there was not a question they could not answer. We saw monkeys, different birds and flowers endemic to Kilimanjaro. Our amazing chef Alpha, he prepared 3 course meals for us (yes 3 courses) of very tasty food all the way to our basecamp. Filo or second to none waiter, always there with a cup of hot tea in the morning and after arrival at the next camp ensuring we had enough water for the day. Filo was so encouraging and insistent that we would eat, as altitude started to decrease our appetite Filo would not let us get away without eating our food. You need to eat go keep your strength, and how right was he we needed every bit of that strength. Our always helpful and happy camp master Juma, always there with a smile and a welcome when we reached our camp each afternoon and to help with our gear. All the porters in our team, you are our heroes. Getting all food, gear, water etc up the mountain, and having our tents up snd ready for us to fall into. Special thanks to our porters and summit supporters Emanuel and Deo. Summit day, we started for the summit at midnight after a very hearty breakfast/dinner. Once again the weather was on our side, clear skies a very nearly full moon and a sky full of stars. It was hard so so hard, our amazing summit crew guides Rashid and Frank and porters Emanuel and Deo, sang for us there was chanting, words of encouragement stops for water sips. Honestly I would not have made it without them and their positive support. Not to forget they carried our daypacks for us, didn’t that make a difference. From the bottom of my heart thank you 🙏 Climbing Kilimanjaro was the hardest thing I have ever done, but the most amazing experience. Such an emotional journey, there was times when I thought I can’t do this but with all the encouragement you put one foot in front of the other and breathe just breathe. I was trying so very hard to hold back tears when we reached the summit, we made it!!! On the way down as we got close to our Basecamp dome of the other porters came up to great us all and took over the daypack to carry down the last bit to camp, again what a team spirit. One team one dream, our group of 4 ranging from 53 to 68 Years of age all made it to the summit thanks to the wonderful support from our climbing crew.
Asante
