My Dad & bro are climbing Mount Kilimanjaro this week.
Here’s an email sent from my dad to my mom last night from his blackberry:
“In case u get this we are now at 2nd camp going to bed. It was a 5 hour trek today all uphill. Lack of oxygen started to affect people and I’m just starting to feel shortness of breath and light headache. Dan had headache but it seems to have gone now. We all have supper in big tent. Porters have to carry an incredible amount on their backs and head. The climb today was all day in clouds and mist. We are now above rain forest. This evening the skies cleared and the snow covered summit can be seen. Its amazing. Seems incredible we would ever make it up there. But we will see. Otherwise all well here. Just going to bed. Say hi to bear and all.”
(For those of you who don’t know, Bear is my parents’ dog).
Ian and I really wish we could be on the trek too!
