Why do Team Kilimanjaro use a different 7 day Machame schedule to every other company that runs climbs on Kilimanjaro?
The 7 day Machame schedule used by every other company except TK was not configured by a mountaineer. Climbers should therefore not imagine that there is necessarily a sensible reason for stopping at Karanga to overnight. It should be borne in mind that: a) prior to attaining Barafu climbers will have visited the Lava Tower at 4,642m, where they will usually have had a slow and relaxed, hour-long lunch while sheltered in a mess tent, and brought their breathing rate very low. During this time, with relaxed breathing in a relatively oxygen-starved environment their chemo-receptors will detect a very low CO2 concentration and the necessary triggers for physiological adaptation to altitude, particularly increased haemoglobin production, will have been boosted. The climbers will then drop to 3,984m where the 50-60 millibars of extra pressure will provide sufficient reprieve for the body to undergo the changes that have been identified as being necessary earlier in the day. During this adap
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