Kilimanjaro in 6 days

A wooden sign on the crater rim, reached at dawn after six to eight hours of climbing from midnight, in deep cold and thin air.

Ice in the Kibo crater, the last visible piece of the ice cap, named after Walter Furtwängler, who reached the summit in 1912.

A wall of about 250 metres above Barranco camp, climbed without ropes in an hour and a half, often using your hands.

A collapsed caldera west of Kibo, between 3,500 and 3,900 metres, as flat as a table and covered in giant heather and groundsel.

The busiest route, about 62 km over six or seven days, from the southern rainforest across Shira and past the Lava Tower.

A Chagga village above Moshi, then a forty-minute walk through banana and coffee plants to a fall of about 80 metres into a cold pool.

The starting town for climbs, among the coffee farms; the summit usually shows itself only at dawn and in the late afternoon.

The oldest route and the only one with huts instead of tents, at Mandara, Horombo and Kibo, up and down by the same path.