Left: our guides, Fuat, the assistant guide (or Fortune, or Fortunata! -- Arsenal man, and also apparently a bit of a ladies' man in Moshi) on the left, and Bruce, our guide, on the right.
Feeling good -- Bruce sets an easy pace. We stop along the way to see an eagle eating a catch up above us. The terrain gets drier as we continue ascending. Eventually we reach the top of a ridge and can look out over the Shira Plateau below. In the distance we get a view of Kili under cloud, our first sight of the mountain peak. We descend down on to the plateau - we can see the campsite in the distance. We finally get in to camp at around 4 PM - a fairly early day. The tents have already been set up by the porters.
Fairly mediocre dinner of rice and a very suspect fish. It is freezing in the tent, worse outside. Bruce discusses our options for the following day - we have the choice of heading for a lower or a higher camp the following day. The advantage of going to the higher one is that we'll spend a night at much higher elevation (4200 m), and have a better chance of acclimatizing. We go outside and see a field of brilliant stars. It is too cold, though, so I flee to bed. I try to read for a while but I quickly fall asleep. I have a fitful night's sleep, and I an awake again by 6 AM.
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