it looks like we’re almost there I was about to meet my climbing team the guides the porters the staff that would hopefully lead us to the summit it’s a predominantly female team and I’m so excited to learn from these strong women so this year this is the real behind the scenes of any Kilim manjara Expedition because in order to go up the mountain you need to carry a lot of stuff with you food shelter gear equipment and to do that you need a lot of people so all this stuff is being carried up Kilimanjaro by people by the porters of killi and over the next few days I’ll be learning how to do that too the porters of Kilimanjaro are the true unsung heroes of the mountain they’re the ones who carry all the gear and food up and down these Trails setting up camps and ultimately making the mountain accessible to 30,000 tourists that visit every year just a few years ago it was an all male profession but more recently women have started to join their ranks Rose ellia Manny and Gracie here are some of these Porters and they were about to teach me all about their line of work over oh yeah that is like 50 right here this is just like one person’s head carry I have no idea what’s inside maybe like a propane tank