Want to skydive near Kilimanjaro?

Tuesday 11th September 2007

A company based at Moshi Airport is offering skydiving trips near Kilimanjaro. Skydive Kilimanjaro is the brainchild of Australian Rhys Kempen. Of course, you don’t actually skydive near the mountain itself, though it will certainly features in many of the photos you take while you’re plummeting to earth at an incredible rate of knots, your face flapping with the G-force like a bloodhound in a wind tunnel. No previous experience of gravity is required, and after just ten minutes of training you’re ready to hurl yourself headfirst out of a plane with an instructor strapped to your back.

Fancy it? Well do bear in mind that you won’t actually be able to see the crater at the summit of Kilimanjaro as your plane won’t let you get high enough to look down on Kili’s 5895m summit. There’s also the cost, which is US$299 for approximately 35 seconds of pure, freefalling horror as you hurtle 9500ft – followed by a further four minutes of so to collect your thoughts before you reach the ground. Videos and photographs of your sheer, naked terror are another US$150 each, or US$195 each.

Then follow this link to the Skydive Kilimanjaro website.

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