Today our climbers would have continued walking East, towards the main peak of Kibo, passing between large boulder piles. Hiking would have been very varied as the path drops into a broad valley then climbs steeply up and down through some scree slope. At the bottom of this, they would have enjoyed views of the the orange cliffs of the Lava Tower and of the wall or the Western Breach. From there on, they would have climbed upwards and turned south to the glacier streams and Barranco Hut, which is where they are spending the night.

Barranco Hut is situated at 13000feet/3900m, so the "Kili bunch" are really gaining altitude now. This, or the slopes and valleys which they have passed today, may explain why the text message we got today was very "scrambled". But, although we are unable to give you any direct and concrete news from our climbers at this moment, we can confirm that no emergency calls have been received--and beyond that, no news is always good news.