Most of climbers do night summiting, and start mostly in the mid-night. At base camps, climbers are always briefed by guides, of how to prepare themselves with the summit ascent and when to start. Make sure that you have enough water and sugar(chocolate bars and glucose),head torch, warm and windy gloves, sun blocks, sun glasses, guggles, hiking poles, rain gear, balaclava or puff and valuable stuff in your backpack. We will have for you a first aid kit with medicines, oxygen cylinder, pulse oximeter, hot ginger tea, some snacks and extra drinking water.
Of course, to be honest, about 30% of the summit`s success comes from your energy and your head contributes about 70% of the success. You need to have determination and the will to get to the summit.
If a climber is properly acclimatized, he/she has more chance to make it safely to the summit and less possibility of getting AMS symptoms.
Walking in the terribly cold night without proper gear can lead to freezing or hypothermia, and this can stop a climber from reaching the top. It is also very uncomfortably to walk while feeling cold. A climber needs to have enough and proper summiting gear
The trek to the crater rim is doable but steep hike over loose volcanic scree at some points, and it takes a slow pace in a zig-zag pattern towards the crater rim. About 300m.before the rim, is probably the most challenging portion of the hike, both physically and mentally. From the crater rim, the trek is much easier, with less steep and flat at some points.
Summiting Kilimanjaro does not require technical climbing or an experienced climber. Anyone who is healthy and fit, from the age of 10+ can summit Kilimanjaro. It is very common to have light headache and nausea on the way to the summit. This is something to expect, and headache without other symptoms is not Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS).This is how your body tells you that it needs more oxygen. What you need to do,first tell your guide, then take a short break. Drink more water, take long deep breaths and consider to take pain killer (paracetamol, ibuprofen or dexamethason is recommended).If someone has nausea, he/she will feel bad and uncomfortable, and his/her body will try to convince him/her to give up. You need to rehydrate yourself more and you can take ant nausea medication. But normally after throwing up, you can feel better again. But if you have both headache and dizzyness, you must go down immediately, as this can lead to Ataxia, which is the symptom for HACE.
Walk slowly, one step, one deep breath in, another step, another breath out. You breath in through your nose, you breath out through either nose or mouth. Do not take long breaks, do not lie down, do not close your eyes. Drink water, eat some sugar. If you are too warm, take one layer off or open the zipper, and do vice versa when its colder. Make sure your day sack is light; give extra weight to summit porter or to the guide.
If you feel like you want to give up, while you don’t have any symptoms, before desition, first take a short rest, 10 – 15 minutes. Take more fluid and sugar. Take deep and long breaths. Then try to walk for about 10-15 minutes. Feel your body. If your body allows,then carry on.
Summit success rate in general on Kilimanjaro ranges between 60% to 80%.But we have much higher success rate, range between 76% to 96% through different routes with different summit success rate, and because we offer itineraries that we know trekkers are going to be successful on and that give the best acclimatization. The Lemosho route, of course, has the best rate of success and the Machame route is right behind it. However, if you have 7 days to climb, then we suggest choosing the Machame route.
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