Day 6 – Summit attempt via Stella Point (5752 m/18871 ft) to Uhuru Peak (5895 m/19340 ft) and descent to Millenium Camp (3820 m/12530 ft) (or to Mweka Hut)
Walking distance: 5 km/3 miles ascent + 10 km/6.2 miles descent Walking time: 5-6 hrs + 1-2 hours up, 5-6 hours down (the overall walking time may vary from 10 – 16 hours) Altitude gain: 1072 m/ 3511 ft (Stella Point) or 1215 m/3980 ft (Uhuru Peak) Descent: 2075 m/6810 ft
Our guides woke us up 12.00 pm. We got some hot drinks and some food, but mostly it’s was all about crawling out of our sleeping bag, putting
on a few more layers of clothes, boots and your head torch. My body was dead and got migraine. After a few strong pills i was even weaker.
Not to menchion that we was the last people at the base camp, so had to hurry up to get to the top before sunrice.
After an initial little scramble over some small cliffs to get out of the Barafu Camp, the path became easier. We was the last group, it was so magical to see all the small light all the way though the path. It was so dark and it was full moon. It felt like i was climbing to reach the moon.
Just few hours or minutes later I started crying, my body was so weak and was sick. Then it all started…. i was puking and that was for the next 5 hours to the top!
I saw this sign and was crying even more, because I did it! The hardest 5 hours of my life. I was so
sick and I had so little energy that i could stand up i was falling all the time. It was so scary!!
But then I figured out that that was’t the right sign! I had 1000 meters more to go. My guide told me that I was to sick and we should go down right away. I WAS LIKE: “I did not go all the way up puking and not see the right sign!!!!”
I crawled the last 1000 meters.
AND I DID IT!!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP!! IF I DID THAT WHILE I WAS SICK I CAN DO ANYTHING!!!!
It was so beautiful on the top!! So beautiful!!!
Then I had to drag myself back to Stella Point. From there it’s nearly 1100 m down, down, down… Just focusing on not falling!!
