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7 day(s)
Regular
1-20 people
serious
7 Days Mount Kenya Technical Climb to the Batian Peak. Involves Rock Climbing.
Duration
7 day(s)
Max Group Size
1-20 people
Tour Code
CKC 12 A
Departure Type
guaranteed
Tour Category
Adventure
Guiding Method
Fully guided
Operated In
Age Requirement
15 - 80
Nairobi
08:00
Nairobi
18:00
Morning pick up from Nairobi City or the Airport for the drive to the Mount Kenya National Park. We should be at the Sirimon Park Gate by 11 am.
Commence the trek, which takes you 3 to 4 hours and cover some 9 kms. This route is drier, scenic and good for beginners.
As you trek today you are also taking an acclimatization hike via tropical rain forest. Overnight at the Old Moses Camp. (3,200 m). Full board
With your packed lunches hike past steep slopes towards the Shipton’s Camp. You will pass through Likii and Mackinder’s Valley.
You will view giant groundsels along this route and breathtaking scenery. The hike this day takes between 6 to 8 hours and it is 17 km.
Check in at Shipton’s Camp. From here you can easily view the 3 highest peaks of Batian, Nelion & Lenana.
Temperatures here can reach minus 10 degrees Celcius. Overnight at the Shipton’s Camp ( 4,200 metres). Full board
Breakfast. Take the 6 hours acclimatization Hike around the Western side of the Peaks to view different landscapes passing
through Hausburg col. ( 4,600 metres and then proceed down past the Oblong (4,350 metres,
Two tarn lakes ( 4,400 metres) then down the Teleki Valley to arrive at the Mackinder’s Camp
( 4,200 metres for lunch dinner and overnight. Full board
Breakfast. Take the 3 hours Hike through the Alpine Moorland and them up the loose scree and then proceed
to the Austrian Hut ( 4,790 metres and arrive in time for lunch. Spend the afternoon relaxing and acclimatizing
around here with spectacular views around here. Dinner and overnight at the at the Austrian Hut. Full board
Wake up at 4 a.m. and have some tea,coffee and biscuits and depart for Point Lenana (4985 metres); the 3rd highest peak on Mount Kenya by sunrise.
Enjoy the breathtaking views and take some photos. After the view from the summit as far as Mount Kilimanjaro on the South,
return to the Austrian Hut. Lunch, dinner and overnight at the Austrian Hut. Full board
Commence the 5 am trek through Lewis Glacier up to the Base of Nelion to start undertaking the Technical Climb to the Nelion Point (5188 metres).
Traverse the gate of mist and continue the climb to Batian Peak (5,199 metres); the second highest peak in Africa. Climb back through Nelion
and overnight at the Austrian Hut. Full board
Breakfast at the Austrian Hut. Descend through the Chogoria Route and onto the Mintos Camp; the view point for the Gorge.
Continue the descent using the Chogoria Route through Bamboo and indigenous forests to catch your transfer
vehicle to Nairobi via Chogoria Town to arrive in the evening and are transferred to the Jomo Kenyatta Airport,
Nairobi for your on going flight. Breakfast and lunch
. Full board during the trekking and Climbing
expedition ( Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner).
- Services of a Mount Kenya Trekking Guide.
- Services of a Mount Kenya Climbing Guide.
- Services of Porters.
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner during the Mount Kenya Hike and Climb.
- Mentioned packed lunches on Safari.
- Kenya Association of Tour Operators Bonding scheme.
- Transfer Nairobi to Sirimon Mount Kenya Gate on Day 1.
- Transfer Chogoria Mount Kenya Gate to Nairobi on Day 7.
- Nairobi transfers.
- Private vehicles for transfers from and back to Nairobi.
- Kenya Visas.
- Mount Kenya trekking and climbing equipment.
- Sleeping bags during your time at Mount Kenya.