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Kilimanjaro gallery
Look who made it to the top of Kilimanjaro this week!
Climber involved in Western Breach tragedy returns to Kilimanjaro
Monday 18th June 2007
I have just found out that two of the climbers who survived the rockfall on Kilimanjaro’s Western Breach route that killed three of their fellow climbers has since returned to the mountain to climb it...
Star-gazing map for Kili
Monday 11th June 2007
I am indebted to Karen Sergeant for sending in details of an online star chart for Kilimanjaro.
Over the years of writing this book the number of people who have contacted me suggesting that I put in a star chart for Kilimanjaro has been prolific...
Kilimanjaro’s glaciers will be around ‘for decades’
Friday 20th April 2007
A new assessment about Kilimanjaro’s glaciers is set to reignite the debate about climate change and its effects on Africa’s most famous mountain.
The new study, by scientists from Austria’s University in Innsbruck, suggests that the glaciers will be around for decades to come....
Canadian dies on Kilimanjaro
Sunday 1st April 2007
Marcel Bujold, a 65-
Wheelchairs on Kilimanjaro - the definitive answer
Tuesday 29th March 2007
After months of enquiries and research, we finally have (what we hope is) a definitive answer to the question of whether anybody has successfully climbed Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair. On the 13th October 2003, Bernard Goosen...
Scope trek successes
Wednesday 28th March 2007
A large party of trekkers recently attempted to climb Kilimanjaro in aid of Scope,
the British charity dedicated to helping those with cerebral palsy....
Sorry - Henry’s gone to Timbuktu!
Thursday 1st March 2007
Just a quick note to say that for the next couple of months I’ll be in West Africa working on another project. This doesn’t mean that I won’t be able to maintain this site or answer your questions as always...
Wheelchair user sets new record on Kilimanjaro!
Thursday 15th February 2007
No sooner do I ask for information on using a wheelchair on Kilimanjaro and a reader tells me about an attempt by a wheelchair user to summit Kilimanjaro last summer...
Help! Information on climbing Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair required
Wednesday 14th February 2007
I have just received an email from a reader who is looking to climb Kilimanjaro in the middle of 2008. Nothing unusual about that, of course – except that amongst their party will be several people with learning disabilities – plus one person who is in a wheelchair...
Kilimanjaro rubbish - some good news
Monday 5th February 2007
According to the latest emails from climbers on Kilimanjaro, the litter problem -
The 2007 snows of Kilimanjaro
Wednesday 17th January 2007
Recently, Kilimanjaro has been covered in some of the most extensive snows the mountain has seen in a long time.
In what could be interpreted as a rebuff to all those who say the permanent snows on Kili are disappearing due to global warming...
Gold certificates being ‘handed out’ to non-summiters!
Tuesday 16th January 2007
A reader has contacted me with some rather disappointing news. Louise Fussell, who reached the summit last month, wrote after becoming concerned that the prized golden certificates, handed out only to those who successfully reach the summit, were being offered by unscrupulous guides to trekkers even though they had not managed to get anywhere near the summit...