We rolled into Kibo huts camp at about 1330hrs and had some lunch straight away, to get there involved a 4 hour hike across the alpine desert which is both a rocky and massive expanse of nothing. A great view of Kilimanjaro summit could be seen briefly on approach before as so often is the case cloud shrouded our target from us as if to keep us from seeing too much.

Kibo Huts is the last staging point on the Rongai route before the assault on the summit begins at midnight . I had again felt quite sick as we left Mawenzi camp on our trek to Kibo Huts but luckily my condition improved over the course of the 4 hour hike.

The hike seemed to go on forever mainly because the alpine desert that we were now travelling through was featureless with no end in sight. We tried to play a game of 'I spy' but this attempt was short lived due to the fact that there really was nothing at all to spy!! The terrain was up and down to start with but then evolved into a gradual uphill slog that really took something out of me; I remember arriving at Kibo Huts again feeling quite ill.

A visit to the Long Drop was required as soon as we got in as our chemical toilet had not yet been set up, this was a very unpleasant experience that did nothing to settle my stomach. One of the hard things about sleeping in the tent since the start of our trek was that we were always sleeping on a slope, it was to be no different here. As the day wore on I gradually started to feel a little better and attempted to prepare myself mentally for the challenge of summiting Kilimanjaro which was now only hours away.