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This has been on my bucket list for so long and for you to make such detailed videos about it makes me feel like I can really prepare and make it happen, Thank you!!!
Happy to hear! You can 100% make it to the top if you choose a good tour provider, a good route, come prepared, hike slowly, and eat/drink as much as you can. If you're still concerned about making it, do lots of cardio, strengthen your legs, bring diamox, and choose a longer route. You'll be fine!
For the downhill part, it's definitely worth getting some knee supports, this will really help lessen the damage, give you stability, and hopefully prevent so much pain the next day. I just found this channel and now I'm binge-watching! My mum was born in Tanzania so it's a dream of mine to go to Kilimanjaro and also to visit her birthplace in Arusha! Hopefully, I'll be able to go one day.
Mount Everest basic camp is too expensive today, you have to choose a porter or a group, and the flights cost $900, Hotels/food 3 times the price than normal in Nepal mountains, the summit cost $50000, and 3 months of preparation... The Thorong La Pass is for free and 5400m altitude... Then even Kailash makes much more sense... Every Asian wants to trek the Mount Everest Basic camp...
Congratulations on making it to the summit and congratulations on your engagement also. I climbed Kili in January and best experience of my life so far you can't really describe how it feels when you make it to the top. Climbed with my classmates so lots of memories were made that I will never forget:)
Thankyou for this series, loved seeing the highlights of the trek but more importantly all the packing and extra info which you don’t always see in vlogs. I was booked for Everest this May and Kilimanjaro was on my radar for later in the year so looking forward to when I can travel again and all this info will come in handy!!
I’m an Aussie and have done Kosciusko walk. Definitely a one day journey, simply gorgeous and super easy. In the right conditions in off season sections of snow on the way up. It’s also awesome for skiing in the snow season. Nice food and accommodation too. Easy peasy road trip from Sydney if you are staying there.
That sunrise looked so epic! And very important questions... but ewwww! Good heads up though, lol. Thanks for sharing and congrats on tackling Kilimanjaro!
💕 loved this series! I enjoy planning for trips as much as the actual travelling and it‘s interesting to get insights from your planning, travel stories and recap
I am very glad that you two made it up there. You will always be able to reflect on that success when life throws you a curve ball. Thank you for being inspirational. 😇
10000% recommend taking Diamox! At least get the script from your doc and bring it! We did Everest Base Camp and put off taking it until Day 5. Thank the LORD we brought it because we couldn’t sleep without it.
Thanks so much for putting this Kilimanjaro series together. Very well filmed and edited. But best of all, one of the most informative videos on Kili that I’ve seen. Very helpful for planning my own summit trip after Covid. Many thanks.
Thank you for the great Q&A! The questions about going to the bathroom on the mountain are usually not ones most travelers think about until they are about to actually start the hike. I have enjoyed these detailed videos about a particular destination such as Mt. Kilimanjaro!
Great info thanks! I'm the opposite. Really want to do Killimanjaro, but I have done Everest Base Camp. Which I highly recommend. I have just uploaded another video from my everest trip. One tip make sure you go up Kala Pattar ( stunning views of Everest) for sunrise the morning after you've been to Everest Base Camp. Although it was probably the hardest few hours of hiking I've ever done, due to the elevation. Your kilimanjaro videos have been helpful. Thanks Nadine and Matt
Go to Gokyo Ri in the Himalayas!! From the peak, you can see Everest, plus 3 other 8000meter peaks. You start on the route to EBC and it is super crowded and busy. But after a few days you branch off and you will have the trail to yourself! Amazing trek. Best kept secret in Nepal!
If one of you had to stop and go down (altitude or other reason), what the other one would do? Continue or not?? I enjoyed the videos so much, amazing experience..
My girlfriend and i are planning to do this in the future and vlog it. Thank you for the awesome information. Exactly what we needed. Appreciate your efforts!
Nadine, I would look into Island Peak in Nepal over EBC, google it. It’s freaking awesome!! A little more technical, but it’s mind over matter baby! If you do Island Peak, you’ll essentially do EBC and then summit at Island Peak. In my opinion, when you reach the climax of your trek at EBC, it’s quite anticlimactic and I think hiking to a PEAK as a true summit is so much more mentally rewarding.
Thanks guys very informative. I was going to book Killi but actually now think I will reconsider as there is much more beautiful, cheaper and clean (!) places to see. One erased from my bucket list but in a good way, I would hate to spend all that money and it be underwhelming
Loving these videos and congratulations on the climb. What do you do whilst you are not hiking? (What do you do at camp?). Just seems apart from sleeping and eating, it's a long time to just be sat there. Thanks for the videos, a big help
So some days you definitely have more time, but I never really felt like there was excessive amount of time at camp. Hard to remember exactly after a couple years. Lunches and dinners are fairly drawn out and take up a bit of time. There are some quick chats and medical checks each morning and evening to check heart-rate and blood oxygen. They provide hot water for washing up, which is nice to do each evening to freshen up a little and keep the body odor at bay. You can walk around the camp to check out the area/views, read a book, or sit down and have a hot drink with your fellow climbers. You're also waking up at 5 or 6am each morning so everyone was in bed pretty early.
hehehe (kosciuszko) Pronounced - Koh-zee-oz-koh, which you can definitely walk in a day for sure, but there are ways to cheat. If you want the true hike you would start right from the bottom (Charlottes Pass 18.6km) , there are carparks (Thredbo) that go half way up & a few other options. You can actually even ride this trail. Love this set of videos, I'm new to your channel! Looking forward to a good binge during COVID.
When I was a little kid in Ukraine playing in the streets with my friends and if we had to go we would use leaves instead of toilet paper. I can relate to your experience :) Not the same bur similar.
doing ebc trek my friends and I all decided to not eat meat while on the trek as we didn't want to risk getting sick, but as soon as we got down to Lukla we all indulged in some meat. our guides there also brought us apples which was a huge blessing (roughage) and we ran out the last night and the next day I got diarrhea, so bring imodium, altitude does that to you similar to periods. lots of similarities, but yes pack garbage down please, get your cardio up is what I'd recommend
Kosciuszko is a walk in the park. Just be prepared to bring lots and lots of bug repellant or a hat with a mosquito net. Those bugs are so clingy for my liking...
I got one-time Altitude sickness, but I could so survive the Avalanches, we were running upwards like crazy... My tip: Go super slowly and so no Altitude sickness
If you have any questions about Aconcagua, which I recently summited back in Feb, send me a msg. While it is the 2nd easiest trek of the 7 summits, the summit success rate is less than 50%, due to extreme weather and altitude. Only 2 of the 7 in my group made it up. And they also recommend not to take any diamox after base camp due to lack of water higher up and the side effects of the med.
oh my godness you are making my dreams come to another level, i'll do anything to experience it on my own, plz someone who is in charge, gimmie well-paid job haha
I wonder if wearing some kind of knee support would help on the way down. Did anyone do that? It was an amazing adventure. I can understand you getting upset or disappointed with human kind when you see trash everywhere. I've heard the trash is bad on Everest all the way up. That is a real shame that people do that. Thank you for taking us along. Profs to the porters. They must be in amazing shape to do what they do.
A knee brace would probably be a good idea. Not sure how much it would help, but i'm sure it would be better than nothing. And ya, serious props to the porters, they are super humans 🙌
It's generally recommended to start taking diamox 1-2 days before climbing. If you begin taking it when you start to feel symptoms then it may be too late
If I were to hike up Mt K single, could I come down engaged too? What tour company can arrange that? Are there matchmaking tour operators?? LOL But, congrats to you two! I’ve been watching as you’ve been to so many awesome destinations and waiting for a proposal, sometimes impatiently!! :)
For those who are not on birth control, talk to your MD about progesterone supplements just for the month that you want to postpone your period. I did this on my trek to Gokyo Ri in Nepal and it worked perfectly. I started taking them a few days before I would have started my period, stopped the day I came home from Nepal and I started my period the next day.
@HeyNadine! I love the layers you wore summiting. What size did you get in rain shell, fleece, and puffy? I'm a similar build and am torn between sizing!!
For me, when I research a trip I organize all my findings in one place. and make google docs with all the info. You said you did so much research, if you that stuff one place still, can you share it. It would make everything for us a lot easier :)
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Hi Nadine, just found this series and love all the amazing details and personal experiences you guys included in the videos. You mentioned that you rented sleeping bags instead of bringing your own. Could you provide the name of the rental company? Are the bags clean? I am debating whether to rent or buy one for the climb this summer. Thank you!
Our tour provider (Kandoo Adventures) supplied the sleeping bag rentals. They were really good quality, very warm and clean. They looked pretty much brand new. Although I can't guarantee all rentals would be like this! You can rent pretty much anything you need in the town of Moshi. I think any decent tour provider would be able to help you source rental stuff and to make sure you're getting good/clean stuff
We had 2 mirrorless cameras with us - a Sony a6400 and a Sony a7 III. Lots of people just used their cellphone for photos/video. We also brought spare batteries and a battery bank to charge our electronics. It's also good to know that the summit can be well below freezing temps, so camera batteries might die during the long climb in the cold (one of ours did). If you want photo's & video at the summit i'd suggest keeping your phone or camera (or at least the battery) inside a pocket that's close to your body to keep it warm.
We weren't provided with one. We went minimal and just used an extra sweater as a pillow. I'd suggest an inflatable pillow to save space, or just bring an empty pillow case and fill with clothes.
@@mattofstie9298 7 days including one night at Crater Camp BUT we did a 4 day Mount Meru hike before doing Kili which helped a ton with aclimatation. Mount Meru is an amazing hike in itself and I really do not regret doing it.
Hi. I'm a little late to this but I was wondering if you could please explain why people donate equipment to porters? That seems to imply that they can't afford the gear themselves. Are they not paid enough? Also, I'm Australian. Mt Kosciusko is a 4 hour walk and you can get a chair lift a lot of the way. I imagine it would make you guys laugh after Kilimanjaro. We don't really have proper mountains in Australia 😂 It's a lovely day out though.
From what I understand, if you go with a tour provider that is KPAP approved, then the porters will make a "living wage" when you combine their regular pay together with the recommended tips they receive. But the standard of living is very different in Tanzania and it's difficult for porters to afford good quality gear. Most things in East Africa were much more expensive that we expected them to be when you consider how low average wages are.
I skip my period, too, when I am travelling. I do not want to deal with my pains during travels. About the litter. Damnnnnnn.... Humans are cancer of the earth. Ugh! 😩😩😩
I’ve used a toilet on Mount Fuji. It had a heated floor. Apparently this is the day I tell a bunch of strangers on the internet that I took a whizz on Mount Fuji. Ok then...