Faye Cornhill and Family Climb Mount Kilimanjaro Documentary - 8 Day Lemosho Route - August 2022

This documentary features me, Faye Cornhill, and my family: husband Phil and my children Harry (age 13) and Grace (age 11) as we attempt to summit Africa's highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro 5895m in Tanzania. We climbed the mountain on the 8 Day Lemosho route in August 2022. As you'll see, the adults and kids both found this an enormous challenge; altitude sickness, hunger and headaches made the mountain seem even higher!
Thank you for taking a moment to watch, we'd love to hear your feedback.
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- Editing and post-production by the hugely talented Steve Cholerton of Sentient Pictures (www.sentientpictures.org/)
- We climbed Kili to raise money for our Charity, Lives in Focus (www.livesinfocus.org.uk)
- Our team of guides and porters were provided by Jaribu Africa and we planned our trip with Stubborn Mule Travel.

[@kiarieexploreske]

I have climbed Kilimanjaro thrice and documented one of them. CONGRATULATIONS!! Really nice seeing a family climb together and how mentally strong all of you were.. Please do more videos, will be glad to watch...

[@thefayecornhill]

thank you for watching, so glad you enjoyed it. And WOW 3 times is amazing, congratulations to you x

[@andrewshowman9522]

Absolutely epic, Cornhills. Unbelievable family achievement.

[@thefayecornhill]

Thanks Andrew 👍🏼 appreciate you taking the time to watch it 🙏🏻

[@marytarr5873]

My amazing Cornhill family - you are the most amazing family I know and love - I cried my eyes out! YOU DID IT ! Gracie and Harry, you are both brave and so fearless - oh my word, I have goosebumps ! You are such a beautiful family and your guides are Legends ! They were so encouraging and determined to get you to the top- they were so lovely, I wanted to hug them all myself! I loved seeing you all get to the top! It was certainly not a walk in the park .....WELL DONE, what an accomplishment ! love always Mary T xxxxx

[@thefayecornhill]

Oh Mary! We love you too 🙏🏻

[@adriennewatters1058]

Absolutely amazing! You Cornhill’s are made of tough stuff. X

[@thefayecornhill]

Thanks Adrienne :)

[@dropoffeeling]

I did the Lemosho route a month ago and that summit day was SO HARD. Congratulations for everyone, specially for the kids.

[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you! And huge congratulations to you for making it. Summit night was SO hard!

[@nosilverbullet4pd998]

Guys, blown away by your achievement. Many congratulations 👏👏👏 ( Mark Limebear)

[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you so much for watching Mark, really appreciate you taking a moment to watch x

[@sergelevesque7043]

A breathtaking story!! Highly motivating and emotional. Very beautiful and well-made documentary to watch again and again. Thank you! :-)

[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you for such a lovely comment 🙏🏻 We really appreciate you taking a moment to watch this ❤

[@karicampbell8487]

Impressive beautiful family. Absolutely loved your video. Would love to see more adventures like this. Your children are amazing 😍. What strength of character, willpower, and absolute kick ass personality you all have. Total fan, looking forward to your next adventure xox

[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you Kari, we really appreciate you taking the time to watch this... stay tuned for our next adventure :)

[@KerrieFitzgerald1]

Wow Faye what an absolutely INCREDIBLE VIDEO & story. I’m so glad you got to capture this. You are such an inspiration & honestly seeing your kids climb that mountain was incredible!!!! so proud of you!

[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you so much K ❤ we appreciate your support 🙏🏻

[@hoppyg22]

It's so warming to see a family that is so close and genuinely enjoys spending time with each other. Very nice documentary 👌

[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you so much for taking the time to watch it ❤

[@graememurphy8653]

Well done, we did it a few years ago and had no experience at altitude, we live in Perth Western Australia at sea level so we picked a boutique company and paid a premium for them to just take the 3 of us up there and it was definitely money Well spent. We saw bigger groups that the guides were turning people back on summit night because they were struggling. Your guides definitely put in a big effort to get you there and that's what you want.

[@thefayecornhill]

I totally agree it’s money well spent having a group of porters just for you… the support they gave us was incredible. Ultimately they enabled us to summit. Congratulations on your efforts 💪🏼

[@carolinelittle7304]

Wow 👏 absolutely amazing, well done to you all. What an amazing experience, one that will be cherished forever. Great determination from you all. I even had tears in my eyes at one point!! Truly amazing 👏 ❤❤❤

[@thefayecornhill]

Thanks for watching, so pleased you enjoyed it ❤

[@dennisjulius7206]

Great trip ❤ family was amazing hiking was tough but you was made it in your own good style and smile 😀 I appreciate you All ❣️

[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you Denis, you were a hero on that trip!

[@matheusfabulousworld2706]

We will do the Lemosho with our 15 years old son in october. Thank you sharing your experience😊

[@thefayecornhill]

Have a wonderful time! It’s a truly amazing experience.

[@LivesinFocusCharity]

Fantastic achievement - Bravo!

[@user-ip9yo8wm9r]

Such an achievement for you all after such a hard slog and how you managed to cope with altitude sickness. Your documentary video was so uplifting, particularly your continuation after each of your family seemed to reach a critical point of no return. But you all carried on, so impressive. Well done! Julie and I are, cheekily, using our daughter Jeni's link to KZbin which was on our computer.

[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you Richard and Julie - appreciate your lovely feedback! Sending you both much love x

[@gopheroo]

Inspirational and well-captured👍

[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you!

[@landb1873]

What a super video! Great to see a family accomplish an amazing feat together. Thank you for helping your young adults learn skills that are vital for their future success. Question: did you take any medications for altitude sickness?

[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you! Yes we took altitude sickness tablets but we are unconvinced that they helped at all. We had to stop because they were really interfering with our sleep. Our head guide said that it happens to a lot of people and recommended us to stop. We felt a lot better.

[@jenandpetemartin1797]

We are so incredibly proud of you all. Such an amazing achievement and what determination. We cried so much watching this!! Love you all xxxx

[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you 🙏🏻 So glad we made you proud ❤️

[@Icenurse]

Great video Faye!

[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you :)

[@KakaiMarr]

I watched a lot of videos on climbing Kilimanjaro and yours was the only one that made me tearful !! Well done. I noticed you didn't use hiking poles. Do you think they would have been a great help especially on the summit day both up and down? I am climbing in January 2024 and am strongly advised to use them.

[@thefayecornhill]

How exciting, best wishes for your climb! I (Faye) used poles almost the whole way. The others used them sometimes and sometimes not. Harry found them a bit annoying to carry, as did Phil. I wouldn’t say they were essential but I kind of liked the routine of having them. Definitely take them and see how you get on. Good luck from us all!

[@GardenHands]

What a memorable adventure. Thank you for sharing your experience. Those kids are troopers! we're planning a hike for Aug 2024, so it was great to see how it went for you. Curious how cold you thought it got at night at the higher elevations?

[@thefayecornhill]

Oh how fantastic! Good luck, you’ll love it. I’m not 100% sure on temperature but some mornings there was snow on the floor and the tent was iced. Definitely below zero but I’m not sure how far below zero. Have a wonderful time!

[@GardenHands]

@@thefayecornhill Thank you so much for the info!

[@YICHARO]

You do a video of what grace and harry packed as we are going on this trip please

[@thefayecornhill]

We should’ve done this, so sorry we didn’t. In all honesty the kids took exactly the same kit as us - the extras I highly recommend are card games and a hot water bottle!

[@YICHARO]

@@thefayecornhill we didnt get to the top as my sister got sick because of the altitude we got up to the wall

[@thefayecornhill]

Oh I’m sorry to hear that. Hope she’s ok now. Did you attempt summit or get as far as Barranco?

[@dennisjulius7206]

Crying a bit I know was happy hakuna matata Ayumi was the hero

[@thefayecornhill]

Hakuna Matata

[@GAPTCHANNEL7]

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[@thefayecornhill]

Thank you :) We're excited for our next adventure!

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