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We climbed the Western Breach by the light of the almost full moon. We had
awesome views of the clouds below and occasionally, we could see all the way
down to the plains. Snowfiled in the BReach casued us to bracktrack twice
(and lose the trail once), but we finally reached Uhuru (19,340' ASL) at
7:30am on January 4th, 2004. We crested the crater rim at Aasgard Point
(18700' ASL). The wind across the crater must have been at least a steady
30mph. And the temperature wasn't much above 0 degrees. We hiked for another
hour around the rim up Uhuru to the Roof of Africa. I took this picture at
the summit and then my camera was frozen. It's just as well as my hands
couldn't handle no gloves much longer anyway.
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