Trip Diaries

Mt Kenya Guide`s Diary: It’s February and today is a hot sunny day with clear blue skies just like any other day in February.  I’m in Nairobi doing the final arrangements for a six day Mount Kenya climb using the Sirimon – Chogoria traverse. Before going to bed, I make sure the vehicle is in good…

I wake up early and assemble all the helpers at the kitchen so that breakfast is prepared early enough as we are going to have a long day.  We set up the table and by 7 am breakfast is ready.  I wake the climbers and show them to the table.  It’s quite a meal comprising…

We passed the night without disturbance, and rose with the sun.  Mount Kenya’s peaks glitterd superbly in the sky. It was a good night’s sleep except for a slight disturbance around 3am when another party headed off to attempt Point Lenena but I can’t really recall falling back to sleep to wake up at  7.00am!  I am out of…

My team and I are up by 6.00am and we start preparing breakfast so that by 8.00am we will all be out of camp.  Today we are doing the peak circuit.  This is one of the most exciting trekking routes not only in Kenya but in East Africa. This is surely going to be a…

This is the peak assault day.  I and the helpers wake up at 4.00am and start preparing a simple breakfast of Tea and Biscuits.  By 4.30am the climbers are woken up  At this point I’m busy making sure they are all dressed  right and that they don’t forget their cameras!  For the peak assault, I’m going…

This is our final day on the mountain.  After breakfast I go to clear everything at the park gate as the helpers pack up everything. From here we then descend leisurely through the wild bamboo forest for two hours to the 10km mark. We see buffaloes and elephants on the way. We then catch a vehicle for…