We leave the Shira campsite again around 9:00 a.m. for a 6 to 7 hour hike to the Moir camp. The Moir camp is at 13,652 feet. The hike today is not as steep as the day before with mostly a gradual upward slope. We eat lunch on the trail again and arrive at the Moir camp at about 3:30 p.m. Just before we get to the campsite, we pass the skull and bones of an elephant that apparently got lost and wandered up too high. We are now in the highland desert on Kilimanjaro, where it is “summer every day, and winter every night.” There is very little water and there are huge daily fluctuations in temperature. It can be very warm in the sun during the day, but, at night, it is well below freezing. There are hardly any plants left at this altitude because the air has started to get very thin. We only see a few hardy grasses, flowers, and lichens. It looks like photos of the surface of the moon. When we arrive at the camp, everyone is doing well. The eastern edge of the camp has a larger wall of lava flow where many people have written their name with a rock. Haley and Cameron write their names on the rock wall. The campsite is on mostly rocks and broken lava. That night we have another great meal whipped up by our cook and everyone is off to their tent just after dark. It is again clear and very cold. At that altitude, the day’s heat disappears very quickly after the sun sets.