http://www.jongupta.com/blog Worldwide Expeditions and UK Adventures Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:52:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Time to go back up the mountain again – with Team 2! What a whirl wind 36 hours and i’m back at the start! Most of the team arrived on Saturday evening with the rest on Sunday. A few small hiccups – one main bag didn’t not arrive at the airport ... http://www.jongupta.com/blog/archives/118 http://www.jongupta.com/blog/archives/116 So - we made it! 100% to the summit (10 out of 10) which is fantastic, but not without some enjoying the sensation of altitude and the lack of oxygen! The expedition went really well from start to finish and the team were superb – really positive and encouraging all the ... http://www.jongupta.com/blog/archives/114 100% success! Hooray!! Everyone made it to the top - 5,895 m. Wow! We set off at midnight and 8 of us arrived at 7.30, and two of us at 8. It was a long trek, 8 hours and a climb of 1,300 m. The weather was very good, a really ... http://www.jongupta.com/blog/archives/113 Thursday. Today we left camp at 7 am as we had a long trek up to High Camp (Karanga Camp). This morning was 100% clear sky with good views of the mountain and the glacier. Really beautiful! Later in the afternoon, it clouded over and we had some slight hail. ... http://www.jongupta.com/blog/archives/112 Day 1 - Monday After breakfast at 6.30, we took a bus at 7. An hour later we arrived at Machame Gate.  We are going up to Machame Route (look at a Kili website for details). The porters weighed our kit, we collected our permits and we set off walking around ... http://www.jongupta.com/blog/archives/111 Short up-date from Kili. All OK. Weather good. Erveryone in good spirits. More detailed news tomorrow. http://www.jongupta.com/blog/archives/110 The rest of the team arrived safely last night and for some this was the first time they had met. Everyone was tired – either from a long days Safari or all day travelling from the UK, so after a cheeky beer everyone turned in. So today is build up day. ... http://www.jongupta.com/blog/archives/109 If you would like to send the team a message whilst they are on the mountain then you can...it can be for one person or for the whole team. Its really simple - all you have to do is email this address     881651442227@msg.iridium.com    you get 160 characters (like a txt message) We ... http://www.jongupta.com/blog/archives/108 Firstly – Meru – what an amazing mountain! It has to be one of the best mountains I have ever climbed! For 2 days you climb up though Arusha National Park, so in theory at any minute Mr Giraffe or Mr Elephant can pop out of the jungle and say ... http://www.jongupta.com/blog/archives/107