6-Day Mount Kenya Technical Climbing Batian and Nelion

• Arrival

  • You’ll be collected from the airport.
  • Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

The North Face itinerary is suitable for the summer to fall (June – Sept) climbing season when the North Face of the peak is relatively snow-free and climbing conditions are best.

Nairobi- Mt Kenya Bandas (2,900m)
After breakfast pick from your hotel in Nairobi at 7:00am start driving through agricultural countryside of Nanazi coffee and tea via Embu town to Chogoria town for your lunch. After lunch, we take proceed drive up to the edge of the bamboo forest where we start our trekking through the dense bamboo forest for distance of 10 km up to the Mt Kenya Bandas for dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:

Mount Kenya (Mountain)

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• In or near Mt Kenya

Meals & Drinks:

• Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast leave the camp toward lake Elise set off up the mountain at a nice and easy pace A slightly longer walk to Lake Ellis gives scenic views of Mugi, Ithanguni and the Giants Billiards Table, whilst if we follow the river near road head, upstream for about 3 km, the foreground scenery and flora is particularly beautiful. Lunch and dinner at the campsite 3600m.

Main Destination:

Mount Kenya (Mountain)

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• In or near Mt Kenya

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast leave the camp as well off the beaten track to follow a ridge up the mountain for about 3 hours to eventually join the tourist track on the normal Chogoria route at an altitude of about 4,100m. Breath taking views over the Gorges Valley and back over towards Ithanguni and the Northern Moorland. Lunch is served at a small stream crossing, before continuing for a further hours to the Minto’s Hut area at 4200m and our night rest. Afternoon is spent relaxing at camp, though a 10 minute walk to the Temple is well worth the effort. This is a 150 meters vertical cliff that gets its name from the position visitors often adopt when peering over the edge dinner and overnight at the campsite.

Main Destination:

Mount Kenya (Mountain)

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• In or near Mt Kenya

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Wake early morning for pr breakfast and start to attempt point lenana 4985m via simba col Point Lenana is the common trekkers for Mount Kenya Summit tourist peak after sunrise photo with good weather you will spot Mt Kilimanjaro From the summit you then go down the Northwest side to Shipton`s Camp passing Harris Tarn for your full breakfast lunch and dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:

Mount Kenya (Mountain)

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• In or near Mt Kenya

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Ascent of Batian by the North Face Standard Route. Starting in the early morning dark, usually between 4 and 5 am, you may climb the first couple of pitches by headlamp. The route initially follows a wide couloir which you ascend for some 7 pitches, never harder than 5.7. A bit of easy scrambling brings us to the Amphitheater, a small basin of easy rock part way up the route. Ideally we arrive here by about 7:30 or so, enjoying a short break.

Above this is the crux of the route, Firmin’s Tower. There are about 3 difficult pitches, all fairly short, but all in the V grade. Above this, easier terrain leads to a few more pitches and, finally, the west ridge. From this point, we continue on easy, but still exposed, rock to Shipton’s Notch, a prominent gash in the summit ridge. Another pitch, then mixed 4th and easy 5th class rock leads to the airy summit of Batian You’ll then descend via the same route to Shipton’s Camp for dinner and overnigh take about 10hours done.

Main Destination:

Mount Kenya (Mountain)

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• In or near Mt Kenya

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast descend from Shiptons camp via mackiders valley through likii north valley to the Old Moses camp. The descent is gentle and it offers ample time to enjoy fascinating scenery which includes the moorlands before reaching the camp for your hot lunch and after proceed further down to Sirimon gate were you will catch your transport via Nanyuki town to Nairobi arriving late evening and drop to your hotel.

Main Destination:

Nairobi (City)

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• A transfer back to the airport is not included. You can use a taxi, request your hotel to arrange a transfer or prearrange a transfer yourself.