Battery Life on Mt. Kilimanjaro

[Richard Harrington]

Whew…. I guess only thing harder would be shooting underwater….

Would need to know more about WHAT kind of battery you are using..

but solar is needed

https://www.voltaicsystems.com/
https://www.ascscientific.com/solar.html

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

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[Graham Fisher]

It looks like I’ll be going up the mountain with a Sony Z1U HDV camera package.

I just talked to a rental house about being able to take something like 6 batteries, but that would probably still be under what I’d need to make it all the way up, and back down. Like I said, the trek is 7 days.

This question probably has an obvious answer, but I’m in the dark on it… Let’s say I went through two large batteries a day… would the Voltaic “Converter” backpack would be capable of charging those in the evening?

http://www.espow.com/camcorder-battery/sony-hvr-z1u.php

Nice backpacks. I’m new to this trekking thing, so I’m trying to think of how this could be added to the mix. We’ll all already be carrying medium sized packs with our misc. trekking stuff… there are porters carrying stuff ahead of us as well.

Thank you!!
Graham

[Gert Brouwer]

Hi,

I will clime Kilimanjaro myself in Januari. Is there any more news on this? I’ll probably take a small panasonic with some extra batteries which I will cary as close to my body as needed to keep warm and dry.

Futhermore I am considering a old, no battery operated, analog camera just in case I get to the top and all batteries are dead. Maybe a couple of films if the batteries die earlier then expected.

Kind regards,
Gert

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