100 Days toKilimanjaro
A public prep for an unfinished dream.
By Jignesh & Vyshali
23 SEP 2026
Lat -3.0674 / Lon 37.3556
Moshi, Tanzania
02 · The dream
Vyshali & Jignesh
Preparation trek · 2025
“The list was almost done.”
02 · A promise kept
The DreamThat Waited.
Seven continents done. One summit left.
When we first met, Vyshali had a list to strike off before turning 30. See all seven continents. Stand on top of Kilimanjaro.
She finished the continents. The mountain waited.
This year, as she turns 31, we are going back for the one dream still unfinished. Not late. Right on time.
Moshi · 23 Sep 2026
03 · The mountain
Kilimanjaro.
Africa’s highest peak.
Kilimanjaro is a free-standing volcano, not part of a range. In one week we walk through five climate zones — rainforest, moorland, alpine desert, arctic ice, and the summit crater.
The hard part isn’t the climbing. It’s the altitude. Roughly one in three climbers turns back before Uhuru. The Lemosho route is chosen because its longer profile gives the best chance of acclimatising.
Summit night starts just before midnight, so you reach the crater rim at sunrise.
Each dot marks a night’s camp. Orange is Uhuru. The Day 4 spike to Lava Tower and back down to Barranco is the trek’s quiet hero — the classic “climb high, sleep low” move that buys the body enough acclimatisation to survive summit night.
Barafu → Uhuru → Mweka
Midnight start. Sunrise at the roof of Africa. Long descent to Mweka.
04 · The 100 days
The 100 Days.
Kilimanjaro takes 7 days to climb and 1 to descend. Becoming ready for it takes a hundred more.
From 15 June 2026, this becomes our public prep journal — the daily-ish record of what it really takes for two busy people to prepare for a 5,895 m mountain.
What we’ll log
- 01Training
- 02Food
- 03Gear
- 04Recovery
- 05Travel
- 06Fear
- 07Small wins
- 08Small fights
One square per day. Tap any box to read the entry — workout, food, mind, lesson, and a reel from the day where one exists.
- Day
- 100of 100
- Entries
- 11published
- To summit
- 6days
Wheels up. The 100 days end at the gate.
We haven’t published Day 100 yet — entries land daily-ish. Come back soon.
Tap another square to read what that day will hold.
05 · Seven continents
Seven continents.
Before Kilimanjaro, there was the world.
Vyshali's dream took her across seven continents — one place, one photo, one story at a time.
This timeline is a small album of the promise already kept.
And at the end of it stands the one dream still open. Kilimanjaro.
06 · Cheer us on
Cheer us on.
You do not have to climb it. You just have to be loud from the bottom.
Send us a line we can read when the mountain gets quiet.
Or give us a song for the summit playlist.
Be the first.
