A group of porters carrying down the rescue car, with a man on it, wrapped in the sleeping bag.
I hoped that they could bring him down fast enough to get him out of the acute mountain sickness.
The highest African mountain is not without dangers, every year several people die in attempts of reaching its highest summit.
Approximately 1000 emergency evacuations and at least 10 climbers' deaths result every year from AMS. Reports say also about mountain deaths of local porters.
No matter how many people climb the mountain each year (over 30,000), it is still a very big mountain and attempting to reach the summit of it is not something that should be undertaken lightly.
The guides for Kilimanjaro trekking groups are trained well to recognize the symptoms of serious altitude sickness.
When a climber (or porter) is sick, they organize an immediate descent, either on foot or wheeled stretcher, like this one on the photo.
The rescue car will transport the sick client off the mountain, being carried by four men and driving on its one wheel down the trail.