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Slow down and drink You’ve trained for months and you’re 100 percent healthy exploding with energy after getting your first glimpse of Kilimanjaro. Once on the trail you’re like a lion chasing a gazelle—all adrenalin consumed by the chase. You by pass your fellow trekkers and despite your guides urging in Swahili pole pole (“go slowly”) you are in perpetual fifth gear. By day four the group is above 12,000 feet and you’re not ahead of the pack. A severe headache, body aches and nausea has you gearing down. Acute mountain sickness and dehydration has hit, but it could

Nobody climbs Mt. Kilimanjaro alone. Not for a long time. And the most important people on your team should be your guides…