To enjoy the climb, get fit. Daily running is best. I have climbed Mt Kenya when unfit and when fit, I highly recommend getting fit (and not just for the climb...)
+1 It will be a miserable experience if you run out of air easily. Make sure you can run at least at 5 miles an hour without struggling to breath. Walk / run alot. If you are not used to walking long distance, your legs will pain easily due to lactic acid on the muscles. If working out is a long lived thing in your daily habit, your muscles have learned to deal with it and you will have a pleasant time. Get a winter shoe and wear it till it get comfortable. Nothing horrible as taking a long walk in a shoe you have yet to break into. Wear warm water proof clothes. The place rain a lot and its miserable to be cold and wet Happy hiking! Muriithi
On 3 February 2014 15:35, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear skunks, Has anyone here climbed Mt. Kenya and can provide practical suggestions
on
what to do and not do or have?
A friend of a friend of a friend wants to start checking items off his bucket list.
Any and all information will surely be appreciated by the aforementioned distant friend of mine :-)
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