Kilimanjaro #11 of many- Barafu and Uhuru Peak!

At the last camp... Barafu... we got there after a short morning hike. This is Day #6.

 at camp

 Mt. Mawenzi... one "sub-peak" of Kili. Apparently it is the third highest peak in Africa after Kili's Kibo summit (where we went) and Mt. Kenya. I'm not sure where Mt. Meru stands... maybe 4th?

 Me, Godo and another porter. They wished us luck in the evening as we tried to get some rest before summitting. We went to bed at 6pm to wake up at 11:30pm for a small bite and a 12:30am departure towards the top!

 A view of Barafu camp from above... this is from the decent from the peak about 8:30am

 A close-up. Literally a camp forged out of nothing

 At 5:58am officially... we made it to the very top. Uhuru Peak at 5895m or 19,340ft. Definitely suffering from ataxia and altitude sickness but nothing too bad.

 The whole group, sans our American guide Brian who got sick half-way up the climb. He went down with another guide. He was OK but had been fighting a sickness so he was too weak to continue.

We had reached here at 5:00am on the way up. I was jabbering on about nonsense at that point, one of the "drunk" conditions of mild altitude sickness. James gave us some hot water that he schlepped up the hill and we stayed warm till we got to Uhuru about 30 min later. I took this picture on the way down... probably was about 6:45am. Then we began the long decent down, plunge-stepping down a scree field which was awesome but required intense focus and energy to place each foot right with momentum on the rocks... Dusty too! We got down in about half the time it took to ascend.