Seven summit record for South African

Mountain climber and adventure-film maker Sean Wisedale has become the first African to climb the seven summits on each continent.
 
Wisedale and his team of 15 climbers reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

His team left on Saturday and started climbing on Sunday.

"We walked quite slowly which helped everyone to acclimatise," said Wisedale from Barranco Valley at 3950m.
 
"The views were bleak but beautiful and it almost felt as if moonscape replaced earthly domain."
 
Wisedale said they would climb the Barranco Wall on Wednesday and "then wind their way up to the Barafu camp at 4700m."
 
"This should take about seven to eight hours and then we will spend some time preparing for the final ascent before heading to our tents," he explained, saying the team would also need to rest before "summit day".
 
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