We get up at 6:30am again for a 8am departure. The camp site is very dirty and yucky!! I had to walk far to find a semi-clean outhouse. We finally leave at 8:45am. The Baranco Wall sits in front of us and is a straight hike up a wall with a narrow path through the rocks. Sonal is not feeling well today but she is told she must go tot Karanga Camp. Our guides tell us that we will eat at Karanga quickly and move on to Barafu Camp. This will allow us to leave at 5am for summiting instead of midnight! We recruit porters to carry our day packs today as we are very tired. The boys carry their own and the girls give them up!
We make it up the wall and have a slightly downward and then upward path to Karanga. We go thorough a valley where old glaciers may have resided once. We make it to Karanga at 1pm (one of the last groups to arrive and leave). Our lunch today is salad with mayonnaise and french fries. We quickly eat up and leave camp by 2:15pm. Sonal is still not well but she will have to go to Barafu for an easy descent if she needs to go down.
There are alot of ups and downs in the hike towards Barafu. We are exhausted and crawl into camp at 6:30pm. Dinner is being served as we walk in. We are so tired that we just want to go to sleep. We eat as fast as we can and go back to change into our gear for the morning. There will be no steripenning tonight as we are going to use tabs. They take four hours to work but the cook and Hashim are willing to fill all of our bags and tab them for us to help us out.
I once again sleep with all my electronics. How uncomfortable is that!! But we need our batteries so there is no other choice. We will be getting up at 4am. So off to sleep it is.
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