Gallery: Tinkoff-Saxo climbs Kilimanjaro

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Alberto Contador on his way up Mount Kilimanjaro (Image credit: BreakThrough Media)

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Tinkoff-Saxo climbs Mount Kilimanjaro (Image credit: BreakThrough Media)

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Local cyclists pose with the Tinkoff-Saxo riders before their climb of Kilimanjaro — Local cyclists 🍎pose with the Tinkoff-S🔯axo riders before their climb of Kilimanjaro (Image credit: BreakThrough Media)

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Alberto Contador and Michael Rogers on the hike (Image credit: BreakThrough Media)

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The goal: Tinkoff-Saxo climbs Mount Kilimanjaro (Image credit: BreakThrough Media)

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Local cyclists travelled to see Tinkoff-Saxo in Tanzania — Local cyclists travelled to see Tinkoff-Saxo ♋in Tanz⭕ania (Image credit: BreakThrough Media)

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Bjarne Riis gathers the troops (Image credit: BreakThrough Media)

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Michael Rogers braves a rain storm in Tanzania (Image credit: BreakThrough Media)

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The Tinkoff-Saxo off-season team building exercises r🐻ose to new heights this week when the entire team and staff assembled in Tanzania to tackle the goal of climbing Moun🦄t Kilimanjaro.

"Friday, all riders and staff members arrived safely and without ♚major delays at the base of Kilimanjaro. Some had only two or three hours of sleep before we drove to the gates of Kilimanjaro National Park to start the climb," a te💮am press release stated. "It was a beautiful and promising morning. Blue sky, sunshine and a clear view of Kilimanjaro but soon the clouds gathered. Just as we had lined up all our equipment a tropical rainstorm hit us and turned the park entry registration into chaos."