The team started their trek today and are settling down for the night at Big Tree Camp at 9,120ft. They woke up this morning at the break of dawn to coffee and tea delivered to their luxury safari style tents at Ndarakwai. After breakfast they loaded into the Land Cruisers and headed for the trailhead and the Kilimanjaro National Park entrance gate where their trek began. They checked in with the park rangers and had a relatively short trekking day, a good warm up, through the jungle and rainforest of the lower flanks of Kilimanjaro.

Everyone is doing great and enjoying the journey, tomorrow they’ll trek up to Shira 1 Camp!

Click on the link below to hear Marcus with the evening dispatch from Kilimanjaro…

Kilimanjaro Trek Dispatch from Big Tree