In September this year two men from Northern Ireland became the first to serve fish and chips at Kilimanjaro's Barafu Camp, a dizzying 4662m (15,295ft) above sea level. Alan Hanna, who runs Pitstop Fast Food in Kilkeel and Malachy Mallon, who owns Dungannon's Dolphin Takeaway, set up what is believed to be the world's [...]
UPDATE AUGUST 2023: Due to the significant doubts surrounding this expedition, we have chosen not to recognise Ognen Živković’s climb as the record. On 6 August 2023 the record for the youngest person to have climbed Kilimanjaro appeared to have been broken. Five-year-old Ognjen Živković from Serbia took seven days to complete his trek, taking the Machame Route [...]
A Scottish woman is believed to have become the world's first quadruple amputee to have reached the summit of Africa's Highest mountain. Corinne Hutton reached the top on Friday, 5 October, as part of a team of 11 people raising money for the amputee charity Finding Your Feet. Corrine, who originally hails from Renfrewshire but [...]
Is the Machame Route too popular? Has Kilimanjaro's busiest route become too busy? For over a decade now the Machame trail has been Kilimanjaro’s most popular trail. According to the latest figures given to us by KINAPA, 20,339 trekkers used Machame in in one year. That figure represents a massive 43% of the total number [...]
Cycling around Kilimanjaro: a bike trip through an African Paradise Prior to COVID, the upper slopes of Kilimanjaro were getting ever busier. More and more people were marching to the summit of Africa’s highest mountain. Some routes were even, in peak season, getting choked with crowds. For this reason, several companies took a step [...]
Other things to do around Kilimanjaro The most popular activity - by far - to do after climbing Kilimanjaro is to go on safari. You can read more about the fantastic opportunities to go on a safari in Tanzania on the Kilimanjaro Experts website. (I should point out that there is no reason why [...]
Why everybody should consider Umbwe When the latest set of statistics were given out by the park authorities recently, one figure in particular stood out. While 47,232 people climbed the mountain that year, only 589 of them - around 1% - chose to do so on the Umbwe Route. The question is: why? After [...]
Earlier this month, on the morning of the 16 March, 2018, Montannah Kenney managed to walk from the park gates to the very summit of Africa's Highest Mountain. In doing so, she became the youngest girl ever to climb to the top of Kilimanjaro. Miss Kenney, from Austin, Texas, climbed with her mum. They [...]
It's been a busy time on Kilimanjaro. This morning Danish athlete Kristina Schou Madsen contacted us to point out that she has just smashed the record for the fastest climb-and-descent of Kilimanjaro by a woman. Her time of 6 hours, 52 minutes and 54 seconds using the Mweka Route (which is usually used as a descent-only route [...]
As most of you will know, there are six main routes leading up to the summit of Kilimanjaro (plus one route that is for descent purposes only). The question is: which one is the most popular? It's an important question, of course, because few people want to trek on an over-crowded route. And indeed, [...]