The path up Machame Gate to Machame Hut passes dense vegetation.
The slope of Kilimanjaro (about 3000 m) with Senecio Johnstonii plants
Detail of a slope of Kilimanjaro (about 3000 m) with Senecio Johnstonii?
View from Shiraplateau (on Kilimanjaro) towards Mount Meru
View over the Shiraplateau (Mount Meru in the back)
At 4200 meter we see Kilimanjaro's highest crater, Kibo. The ground has a few alpine plants.
View of the Western Breach of Kibo from our campsite near the Lava Tower?
View of Shiraplateau and Meru (in the distance) from western breach
Inside Kilimanjaro's crater we can see snow and ice walls / glaciers
Snow and glacier ice in the Kilimanjaro crater
View of the crater(utter right) & Uhuru Peak (in the back) from Stella's Point, the southern crater edge of Kilimanjaro
View of the inner craterfrom Gillman's Point, the souteastern point of Kilimanjaro's crater rim (and the point where the marangu or 'coca cola' route enters the crater) at 5685 meter
View from Gillman's point (crater rim) towards the saddle between Kibo and Mawenzi. Mawenzi is hidden in the clouds.
During our hike over the saddle between Kibo and Mawenzi I see Mawenzi.
TBTony BiaccoOorspronkelijk gepubliceerd op 7summits.com in 200315 nov 2003
Nine days on Kilimanjaro in October 2003 by the Machame route and the Western Breach, with a camp inside the crater and Uhuru Peak on 18 October — a day-by-day account, plus 46 photographs of the Breach Wall, the Furtwängler Glacier and the crater.
