After 5 days of hiking, I reached this spot and marked it on my
30th birthday. This is Kilimanjaro’s Uhuru peak, the highest
point on the tallest mountain in Africa. Can’t put a real
cache here -- no place to hide it, too many people around, and no
one will want to stay long enough to find it. However, I think
you’ll agree that although this may be one of the toughest
virtuals you’ve ever done, standing on top is well worth the
trip.
To claim credit for this cache go to the coordinates at the top
of the mountain. (Let me stress that: please ACTUALLY GO to those
coordinates and don't just pretend you went there. I can't stop
people from logging this cache (or any cache) if they are
determined to fake it, but I'm hoping that people will be honest
enough to not log unless they were actually there. I'm sorry to
have to say this so explicitly, but it seems that it's become an
issue. It's an enormous task to climb this mountain, and it's
unfair to those who accomplished it to log without actually making
the trip. If I have to, I'll make a scanned copy of the certificate
you get for a successful climb the required proof, but I'm hoping I
don't have to resort to that.)
Anyway, once you have actually reached the coordinates, there is
a sign to let you know you’ve reached the top. Send me an
e-mail with the route you took to climb the mountain, the number of
days you took to get there, the date you reached the summit, and
finally tell me the last word on that sign (not the stickers and
whatnot slapped on it, but the last word on the actual sign
itself).
And by the way, please feel free to post a picture in your log,
but PLEASE make sure that picture does not contain a spoiler for
the answer to the cache question - no reason to make it even easier
for people who want to claim the cache under false pretenses.
Thanks, and good luck! It's a long haul, but trust me, it truly is
worth it.
