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We traveled to
Kilimanjaro National Park today. We registered with the Park and we began our climb. We left the cultivation zone where bananas and coffee plants abound and we entered the forest zone. The lush rainforest of Kilimanjaro's lower slopes were covered in mist.
The trail, which is an old jeep trail, soon narrowed into a beautiful trail that winded through thick vegetation and enormous trees. We kept an eye out for the elusive Blue and Colobus monkeys but they were hiding from the rain.
As we approached Machame Camp we left the forest zone and into the Heather and Moorland zone. We saw some heather that is over 30 feet tall! It's nice to be at 10,000 feet and the team is doing great!
RMI Guide JJ Justman
On The Map
RMI Guide Billy Nugent and his Five Day Summit Climb Team reached the summit of Mt. Rainier this morning along with Mike King and the Four Day Summit Climb. Billy reported clear skies and cool temperatures for their climb. Both teams began their descent from the crater rim a little after 9 am PST. The teams will return to Camp Muir and then continue their descent to Paradise. We look forward to seeing both teams back at Rainier BaseCamp this afternoon.
Congratulations to today's
Summit Climb teams.
RMI Guide Andy Bond and his
Shuksan Seminar team all reached the summit! Andy reported great weather with a little smoke south of them. The team arrived back to camp in the afternoon. They will be training tomorrow and ending their seminar on Friday.
This is your
ESS-Peru team checking in from our hotel in Huaraz. We awoke early this morning to yet another amazing breakfast of scrambled eggs, garlic toast, and espresso from our cooks Emilio and Franklin. It proved to be just what we needed after a long day climbing to almost 19,000' yesterday, to make the descent from Pisco Base Camp to the trailhead to catch our bus back to civilization. We're spending the afternoon here in the hotel cleaning up and prepping for a celebratory dinner, to relive the amazing adventure we've had over the past two weeks in the Cordillera Blanca. It's been an incredible journey in arguably one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the world. Tomorrow, we begin the drive back towards the ocean, and onto planes in Lima, back to our loved ones in the States. Until then, buenos noches.
RMI Guides Robby Young, Eric Frank, Edwin, and your ESS-Peru Team
RMI Guide Casey Grom and the entire
Four Day Summit Climb team reached the summit of Mt. Rainier this morning. On the summit, the team experienced a Mt. Rainier cloud cap with snow, low visibility and 25 m.p.h. winds. The team began their descent around 7:15 a.m. PDT. We look forward to seeing them at
Rainier BaseCamp this afternoon.
Way to climb!
RMI Guides
Dave Hahn and
Ben Liken led their teams to the
Mt. Rainier summit! After some light now and 5 mph winds for the ascent, the weather has improved to blue skies and no wind as they topped out. At 9:30 a.m. the teams began their descent back to Camp Muir.
Congratulations to today's summit teams!
RMI Guide Robby Young and the
Five Day Summit Climb July 27 - 31 reached the summit of Mt. Rainier this morning. The team experienced cooler temperatures and some winds this morning as they climbed from Camp Muir to the summit. After enjoying some time on the crater the teams began their descent to Camp Muir. They will continue down to Paradise later today and we look forward to seeing them at Rainier BaseCamp this afternoon.
Congratulations to today's climbers!
The
Four Day Summit Climb team led by RMI Guides Casey Grom and Tyler Jones reached the summit of Mt. Rainier early this morning. Tyler reported clear skies with north winds of 20 - 25 mph.
Congratulations to today's teams!
The Four Day Summit Climb Teams led by RMI Guides Brent Okita and Nick Scott reached the summit of Mt. Rainier early this morning. Brent reported clear skies, light winds and cool temperatures. They will spend some time on the summit celebrating before starting their descent to Camp Muir.
Congratulations Team!
The
Mt. Rainier Summit Climb team led by RMI Guides
Dave Hahn and
Jenny Konway walked into the summit crater at 8:00 am this morning. The team reported wind speeds of about 5 mph, excellent weather, and excellent route conditions. They have begun their descent from the summit and will be back at Camp Muir.
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Is there any word on the group that will summit Tuesday night/Wednesday morning that includes my husband Russell Frederickson? Wishing everyone a wonderful climb!! Jody
Posted by: Jody Frederickson on 7/28/2015 at 5:58 pm
“Cool”????? Billy, you are the MASTER of understatement, haha!
I’m so sorry that I couldn’t hang with you to the summit, but I very thankful to you for keeping us all safe. You are a true professional, and I have the utmost respect for you, Katrina, Blake and the entire RMI team.
Posted by: Barbara Beatrice on 7/28/2015 at 4:48 pm
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