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Look who made it to the top of Kilimanjaro this week!
Is this the youngest Singaporean to climb Kilimanjaro?
January 29th 2008.
Following
a spate of recent emails sent to climbmountkilimanjaro.com about the youngest/oldest
people to climb Kilimanjaro, we now have another claimant: Robert Junqi Wild, who
was born on the 10 May 1993, recently reached the summit of Kilimanjaro via the Machame
Route on December 20th at 7am at the ripe old age of 14 years 7 months 10 days, thus
making him...
The troubles in Kenya -
January 22nd 2008.
I've received a few emails over the past couple of weeks from concerned trekkers
who have booked their Kilimanjaro climb -
Treasures of Africa -
January 15th 2008.
Africa has been the continent that has been the hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic; Tanzania has been one of the worst effected countries on that continent; and the Kilimanjaro region has the highest incidence rate of AIDS in Tanzania...
Charity climb for AIDS orphanage in Moshi
January 13th 2008.
Rita Langeland, of Tustin, California, has written to me with details of a charity climb in aid of the Treasures of Africa Children's Home, which is based in Moshi, in Tanzania. What's more, they are inviting you to join it...
January 11th 2008.
Another day, and news of another Kilimanjaro climb reaches the offices of Climb Mount Kilimanjaro. This one is on behalf of the South African charity Reach for a Dream and is being undertaken by Richard Mulvey and his wife Sheila, along with Richard's good friend John van der Horst...
Charity climb for Scope July 2008
January 9th 2008.
We at www.climbmountkilimanjaro.com
are always heppy to promote anybody's charity climb, so we'd like to give a little
space here to promoting a climb by Brit Alexei Abbott for the British cerebral palsy
charity Scope. Alexei will be taking the Rongai Route and hopes to reach the summit
this July, earning £4000 for the charity as he does so...
77-year-old woman reaches summit of Kilimanjaro!
January 8th 2008.
The Oakville Beaver -
While she
is still awaiting confirmation from the Guinness Book of Records that she has, in
fact, broken the record (an insitution which...
Expert warns of dangers on the newly opened Western Breach Route
January 6th 2008.
One of the leading authorities on Kilimanjaro is warning trekkers
about the dangers of the newly reopened Western Breach Route.
The route, which was
closed for almost two years following the deaths of three trekkers in a rockfall
in January 2006, was recently reopened in December. The only approach to the summit
that climbs up the western slopes of Kibo, the trail is always seen as a more adventurous,
tougher alternative clmax to the Machame, Umbwe, Shira and Lemosho trails than the
standard summit trail via the Barafu Campsite.
However, John Rees-
Albino killings near Kilimanjaro – further details
January 5th 2008
Further details
about the recent deaths of albinos in the Kilimanjaro region (see the news archive
for December 14th) are emerging.
Tanzania’s Albino Society, which represents the
country’s population of some 270,000 albinos, has been accusing the government of
ignoring the current threats against them, despite the murders of four albinos in
the past few months.
It is widely believed that at least some of the murders were
actually ritual killings, motivated by beliefs in black magic, with some witch doctors
claiming that albino body parts can be used in potions to help their clients become
rich. This hypothesis was given credence recently when an albino body was found exhumed
from its grave, with its limbs having been cut off...
Machame Route price increases
January 4th 2008.
I am afraid that, following increases in the prices charged by one
of our suppliers, we have had to increase the price of our two Machame Route treks.
This price hike is, unfortunately, unavoidable. We do apologise and hope this price
rise does not inconvenience too many people. We do feel, however, that our prices
remain amongst the most competitive in the market.
Note that all other prices in
our trekking schedule for 2008 remain the same. Furthermore, unless KINAPA raise
their park fee prices, this will be the last price change for 2008.