What do you wear on Kilimanjaro each day? Your bag for Kilimanjaro is packed with clothes for every season. You have T-shirts for first day or so when you're on the mountain's lower slopes, walking through the rainforest. But you also have thermal underwear, thick fleeces and warm winter coats for your nighttime push [...]
Why do we climb to the summit of Kilimanjaro at night? Several times a year people who are looking to climb Kilimanjaro write to me and ask the same question: Why is it that most people climb to the summit of Kilimanjaro at night? What’s it like climbing at night? It’s a reasonable [...]
Advice for organising a group trek on Kilimanjaro Are you planning on climbing Kilimanjaro with a group of friends or family? Are there at least four of you in your group? Have you been nominated as the person to organise everything? In which case: you have my sympathies. Why? Because the truth of the [...]
Kilimanjaro may be the biggest mountain in Africa – but where does it rank amongst the world’s highest mountains? There is no doubt that one of the main attractions of climbing Kilimanjaro is that afterwards you can boast to your friends that you have stood at the highest point on an entire continent with [...]
Kilimanjaro and COVID: all the latest updates for travellers to Tanzania * LATEST NEWS On this page you'll find all the latest updates regarding COVID and Kilimanjaro. In other words, how the global pandemic may affect your plans to climb Africa's Highest Mountain. In summary, at the moment it is possible to climb the [...]
Coming to Tanzania alone to climb Kilimanjaro? People who have a burning desire to climb Kilimanjaro comes in all shapes and sizes, are all ages and from every country in the world. Their motives for doing so are similarly many and varied. The problem is, what do people do when they can’t find anyone [...]
Advice for female trekkers on Kilimanjaro Tips, advice and information for women planning to climb Africa's Highest Mountain Currently just under a half of our climbers in 2020 were women. This figure includes over a dozen solo women climbers, That is to say, women who have booked by themselves and were joining one of [...]
Should you take your child on Kilimanjaro? Contemplating whether to take your family on Africa's highest mountain? We'll discuss whether you should - and how best to go about it? Last week we received an email from a British woman. She contacted us as she was hoping to take her six-year-old child up Kilimanjaro. [...]
How do senior trekkers fare on Kilimanjaro? Some facts, advice and tips In July 2019 Anne Lorimor, from Phoenix, Arizona, reached the summit of Africa's Highest Mountain aged 89. In doing so she became the oldest person ever to reach Uhuru Peak, the true summit of Kili. It was actually Anne's second successful assault [...]
If a company advertises a near 100% success rate for getting people to the summit of Kilimanjaro, should you believe it? This week I was contacted by a reader who had just got back home after an unsuccessful attempt to climb Kilimanjaro. The person had climbed with one of the top operators on the [...]