Climbing Kilimanjaro was a wonderful experience for Emilia. She did have altitude sickness the last 3 days of the climb that manifest in a migraine headache. She was able to "dig inside herself" and with strong determination made the summit. It took 9 hours since she was not feeling well and would have to walk and then stop to get her breath. They were to summit at dawn but arrived at 9 a.m. and then had to go back down. The group had to get to the second camping site by evening so it was quite a long hike down. She still has blisters on her hands and feet, there was snow and it was cold but not unmanageable. This was Emilia's second Tanzania climb.
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Emilia Myers
January 2010, Kilimanjaro
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