After a day’s rest we then unpacked everything and had everything checked by Justin our tour operator from Evarast. We had a long meeting to go through what we should expect on the first day and how we should pack our bags with a 15kg pack. We had already weighed our packs at home and restricted our pack to 12kg so we had no problem with that. The weight limit was there to protect the porters from being overloaded. They will have to climb the entire mountain with this pack on their shoulders. Daniel, our Head Guide, and Justin, our Chief coordinator and proprietor of Evarest Travel, complemented us on how well prepared we were. The painstakingly long preparation time paid dividends later. We learnt how to “send messages” more of this later!

Daniel Justin Niruben Nila & me 
Our gear ready for examination 



Dhirubhai working from his office with an amazing view of Kili 


Night cap time 