Eruç began bicycling across the continent twelve days later on 2 May with a side excursion to prepare for and climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the third peak of his Six Summits Project, from 8 to 15 June 2011. His climbing party of more than a dozen people, including his wife and his 78-year-old father Cemal Eruç, summitted the mountain on 14 June.