This is me scaling the Barranco Wall, a near vertical climb first thing on Tuesday morning. No wonder they had us up at 4,600m the day before as we needed all the oxygen we could gasp to scale this section of the trek!!

However the other photo is of one of the porters scaling Barranco wall with our camping gear. It was heard enough for us with our back packs let alone the loads these guys carried everyday, and always a cheery 'Jambo' greeting!!