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We couldn't stay at the summit for a long time so we started to go down after we took some pictures. From the summit to "Mweka Camp (3100m),"we took a light blue line. |
When I climbed up to the summit, I couldn't take a picture of "Stella Point (5756m)," because of the pitch black. The guides said, "Stella Point isn't the real goal. |
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But among local climbers, reaching the stella Point is counted as a goal." It's a great rule for some climbers who can't make it to Uhuru Peak!! |
| Actually, some climbers returned to Barafu Camp from there. But!!! Since I came there all the way, I wanted to complete the treck and |
I didn't like to be treated like the one who just got to Stella Point,
not Uhuru Peak.  During the night, I couldn't see any sceneries around us. But Now!! |
| I could see very open view and remembered the down hill of Mt.Fuji, which I climbed 4 years ago. I couldn't believe that we had climbed up |
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from Barafu Camp to the summit in 6 and half hours during the cold black
night. On the way, I wanted to take lots of pictures and to enjoy picture-perfect sceneries. |
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The guides hurried us to go down to Barafu Camp in 2 and half hours. Wished I could stay there longer!! I spent so many hours to get there !!   |
---------- Got back to Barafu Camp --------- |
When I made it to Barafu Camp, the porters and cooks welcomed me with thier smiles and congratulated me. And Harold gave me an hour to take a nup until lunch. |
| Potato stew made me forget ma tiredness from the hard time last night.
And, like yesterday and 2 days ago, Franziska asked me, "Would you like to have mine too??" |
Actually, I was waiting for her to aske me. So I polished the lunch for 2. xD When we got there yestaeday, we got the snowstorm |
| so I took a picture of Barafu Camp the day before I left there. Hmm... If the sky had been very clear yesterday as well, I could have taken lots of pictures there. |
The wind blew as strong as some tents could have been blown away for 2days. |
---------- C5: Mweka Camp （3100ｍ） --------- |
| After we left Barafu Camp, we kept going down, down, and down. Like the scenery from the Uhuru Peak, we could see an open view |
but I started to get bored as it's always the same. |
I sometimes saw some rescue carts along the trails for climbers who felt sick.  |
The long African alpine desert area finally finished and we started to get into a forest area. Since it might have rained around here, the downhill of this area was very slippery |
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and I almost fell down often. So Tammy sometimes stopped and made sure I was OK again and again. How kind of him!!  |
3 hours later we left Barafu Camp, we got to Mweka Camp; the final camp of this trip. At that time, my knees and my lower back were screaming because of the overwork |
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from the lomg uphill for 4days and the downhill hell of 2800m. But on the other hand, my heart was taking a rest during the downhill. I looked so tired in the picture ↓↓ |
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Today's dinner ; Rice Special!! Coriander fried rice was very very delicious!! So Franziska liked it too as unusual. And I and Franziska battled for it !! Lol  |
The next day, we could have 3 hours treck left to the Mweka Gate (1640m) ; the final mountain gate, but actually Mweka Camp was like a real goal for us. |
| The relief from reaching the summit and sleepless nights made me sleep so deeply. Zzzz..... |