Monte Kilimanjaro Ruta Marangu ( Coca-Cola ) 5º día Kibo Hut - Uhuru Peak (Cumbre) - Kilema Gate 36,2 Km
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 22.46 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,298 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 13,186 ft
- Max elevation
- 19,279 ft
- TrailRank
- 32
- Min elevation
- 6,527 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 15 hours 20 minutes
- Coordinates
- 11823
- Uploaded
- November 18, 2017
- Recorded
- November 2017
near Endoinet, Arusha (Tanzania)
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The 5th and last day really begins at 12 o'clock at night, when we get up for breakfast and then start at 1 o'clock in the morning.
We started walking through a stony area (gravel) to the Hans Mayer Cave, we were lucky that the floor was hard because of the snow that fell in the afternoon. From this point the road becomes a continuous zigzag succession; It is a very hard climb because of the steepness of the terrain and the height. The last meters before reaching Gilman's Point (5685 Mts) there is practically no path, it is a succession of steps between rocks. From this point we are halfway up the inside of Kibo crater, with incredible views of the glaciers, to Stela Point (5756 Mts). From here to Uhuru Peak (summit) we are approximately 1.5 km and about 2 hours walk down a bearable path that would be cyclable with many more days of acclimatization than those that are usually done.
After the photos of rigor we went down by bike to Stela Point, from here it is impossible to get down on the bike until practically Kibo Hut, at this point we return to take the bikes to enjoy the descent down the alpine plateau of The Saddle until about 3 km before Horombo Hut.
Here we remove the bicycles because we have 7 km of impassable track and the last 7 km were no longer worth it after the beating.
The numbers of the day are 15 hours 20 minutes of effort with 36 km of travel and with 1300 meters of positive height gain and 4000 meters of descent.
We started walking through a stony area (gravel) to the Hans Mayer Cave, we were lucky that the floor was hard because of the snow that fell in the afternoon. From this point the road becomes a continuous zigzag succession; It is a very hard climb because of the steepness of the terrain and the height. The last meters before reaching Gilman's Point (5685 Mts) there is practically no path, it is a succession of steps between rocks. From this point we are halfway up the inside of Kibo crater, with incredible views of the glaciers, to Stela Point (5756 Mts). From here to Uhuru Peak (summit) we are approximately 1.5 km and about 2 hours walk down a bearable path that would be cyclable with many more days of acclimatization than those that are usually done.
After the photos of rigor we went down by bike to Stela Point, from here it is impossible to get down on the bike until practically Kibo Hut, at this point we return to take the bikes to enjoy the descent down the alpine plateau of The Saddle until about 3 km before Horombo Hut.
Here we remove the bicycles because we have 7 km of impassable track and the last 7 km were no longer worth it after the beating.
The numbers of the day are 15 hours 20 minutes of effort with 36 km of travel and with 1300 meters of positive height gain and 4000 meters of descent.
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