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I September 2012, my teenage son and I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. That is how the book "Kilimanjaro Diaries: Or, How I Spent a Week Dreaming of Toilets, Drinking Crappy Water, and Making Bad Jokes While Having the Time of My Life" was born two years later. Spending a week on that mountain was one of the highlights of my life. This board is a photo essay to accompany the book, and I hope it might inspire some of you to plan climbing Kili, as it is fondly called, yourself.

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The summit night climb. Here you see again how little ice is left, but boy when you're standing right next to it, there is still a lot of it! Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme
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The Machame Route, picture courtesy of Dudley. Here you can see what was evident after the first day: you circle and circle the mountain instead of actually ascending it, until you take a crazy stab at the summit on the last night. Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme
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Goddy a few months later, on his first ever trip outside of Tanzania when visiting Johannesburg. And what did he do? He sang us a song, just like on the mountain. Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme
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Lovely - the laundry pile back home. Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme
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Once a porter, always a porter. Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme
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Scenes from Moshi, the staging town for all Kili conquerors. Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme
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Time to say goodbye to Hillary. We later learned this was one of his last Kili hikes. He took on a job in construction in Dubai, which no doubt pays better but must be a sorry replacement for the free-spirited life on a mountain in Africa. – Eva Melusine Thieme
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Here four of our five guides again. Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme
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Here we get our certificates. Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme

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Back into the eerie rainforest. Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme
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One final glimpse: See you again next time, Kili! Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme
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(Sir Edmund) Hillary and Max. Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme

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Day 7: Our porters dancing to their good-bye song. Jambo Bwana! Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme
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Our trusted toilet tent, which lost its top along the way as to provide better air circulation. Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme
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Some of the filth, after the first wash. Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme

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Here I am, filthy from head to toe, with still one more day to go before we got back to the hotel. Photo Gallery – Eva Melusine Thieme

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