Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

- Cindy Ross

05 - Barafu Camp - Mweka Camp
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05 - Barafu Camp - Mweka Camp

You' start the hike at the edge of the Alpine Desert, after about an hour of climbing in the dark you enter the Arctic Zone, but it is incredibly hard to know when you’ve actually reached this point as you are hiking in darkness and seeing very little but the ground under your feet.

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04 - Barranco Camp - Barafu Camp
Mt Kilimanjaro Sebastian Shaw Mt Kilimanjaro Sebastian Shaw

04 - Barranco Camp - Barafu Camp

Imposing, and surrounding Barranco camp on three sides, the climb up is challenging, but rated as a ‘scramble’ so you don’t need to be an expert. A lot of sites call it the ‘Death Wall’ and throw around terrifying descriptions of how you have to hug the wall to avoid plummeting to your death.

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