Well, almost a month after getting back, Kirk and I finally got a trip report posted. What probably took us so long is he and I have two very different writing styles, which I'm sure you'll see. Even though it is my web page and it is written from my point of view, I still wanted to have his input.

To calculate elevation gain and distance, we started by using Lonely Planet's "Trekking in East Africa" written by David Else, and "Kilimanjaro & Mount Kenya" written by Cameron M. Burns. Everything was in metric, so we had to manually convert the numbers to feet and miles, after which we did some rounding. Therefore, there may be some minor inconsistencies. Kirk also recorded the many ups and downs each day using his altimeter watch, which is how we came up with 16,520 feet as the total elevation gain for the 6-day climb.

Below you'll find links breaking it out for each day we were on the mountain.