Join us as one of our climbers attempts to a virtual Kilimanjaro climb! Tomorrow at 8pm UK time I will be chatting with one of our climbers who is recreating his cancelled Kilimanjaro climb from his home city - and you can listen in. Rob Illidge, from Manchester, UK, was due to begin his 8-day [...]
Tanzania continues to ease lockdown - but what does it mean for Kilimanjaro? You may have read that the Tanzanian government is repealing many of the laws it introduced during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. They have, of course, been under a huge amount of pressure to do so, in order to restart their dormant tourist [...]
Tanzania's President Magafuli eager to ease coronavirus lockdown and restart economy despite concerns from international community According to several reports, the Tanzanian government is looking to relax its lockdown rules this week. This is in response to a decline in cases of coronavirus in the country, according to Tanzania's president, John Magafuli. He cited statistics [...]
Join our virtual Kilimanjaro climb and raise money for the NHS! Were you planning to climb Kilimanjaro? Had you already booked your trip? Was your trek taking place in April, May or June? Does that trip now looks to be in jeopardy because of the coronavirus pandemic? Then why not join us in climbing Kilimanjaro [...]
Coming to Tanzania alone to climb Kilimanjaro? Here’s some advice … 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 [...]
THE CORONAVIRUS IN TANZANIA - AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOUR KILIMANJARO PLANS Read on to find out the latest information from Tanzania, and how it could impact your plans to climb Kilimanjaro. (NB: For the latest news on Kilimanjaro and COVID-19/coronavirus, please read our 'updates' at the bottom of this page.) This last week [...]
Advice for female trekkers on Kilimanjaro A few tips for women planning to climb Africa's Highest Mountain Currently just under a half of our climbers in 2020 are women, including over a dozen solo women climbers (ie women who have booked by themselves are joining one of our public treks). So, having already written posts [...]
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 who was being frustrated in her attempts to take her six-year-old child with her up [...]
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 he became the oldest person ever to reach Uhuru Peak, the true summit of Kili. It was actually Anne's second successful assault on [...]
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 mountain, [...]