Africa’s tallest indigenous tree has been discovered in a remote corner of Kilimanjaro. The tree is, measures a whopping 81.5 metres, and is of the species Entandrophragma excelsum. Scientists from the University of Bayreuth in Germany first discovered a stand of them while exploring the mountain's cloud forest twenty years ago, and recently returned [...]
It finally happened. Earlier this month Dustin Smoot & Stacy M Allee were married on top of Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro. Joshua Ruhimbi, one of our fellow directors at Kilimanjaro Experts and one of the most experienced guides operating on the mountain, was there to witness the occasion and guide the participants, as well [...]
Last week The Guardian here in the UK reproduced an account of Sheila MacDonald's 1927 ascent of Kilimanjaro. The climb is significant as it is possible that this was the first ascent to the summit of Africa's highest mountain by a woman. One paragraph in the account gives you an idea of the character [...]
It sounds incredible but earlier this month Aaron Phipps, who lost the lower half of both of his legs to meningitis aged 15, managed to reach the top of #Kilimanjaro completely under his own steam. For most of the ascent Mr Phipps used his wheelchair to ascend the mountain, but when the scree near [...]
I have recently had a spate of emails from people complaining about a trekking company. It wasn't their service that had got them upset. (Though that was, by all accounts, rather poor too.) But it seems they were artificially manipulating the reviews of their service. Reviews that appear on such popular websites as TripAdvisor [...]
If you're going to the Serengeti, you're going because you want to see the wildebeest migration. After all, the park was established precisely to protect the 'circuit' that the wildebeest follow each year. The wildebeest trace this clockwise route, of course, in order to graze on the best pasture. While few people go on [...]
So you don't think you've got what it takes, physically, to reach the summit of Kilimanjaro? Check out these individuals from the San Antonio Amputee Foundation, all climbing Africa's HIghest Mountain in December this year (with film crew in tow) to show the world what's possible if you put your mind to it: https://www.ksat.com/content/pns/ksat/news/2015/04/16/team-of-amputees-preparing-for-kilimanjaro-summit.html [...]
Morning everyone - here's another in our occasional series of people getting to the top of #Kilimanjaro - or in this case, getting off it - in unusual ways. Here we have 50-year-old Russian Valery Rozov making the first ever base jump from the top of the Western Breach Wall, on the lip of [...]
The new record holder for the fastest ascent by a woman is Britain's Becky Shuttleworth. Beginning at Kili's Umbwe Gate, Becky managed to reach Uhuru Peak on 20 September 2014 in just 11 Hrs 34 Minutes via Barafu Campsite. Early reports are that Becky is hoping to return next year and beat her own [...]
English newspapers have been full of this story for the past few days so I thought I'd share it with the rest of the world. Earlier this month a group of cricketers managed to complete a ten-over game of cricket in the crater of Kilimanjaro at 5,730m (18,799 ft), thereby beating the previous record [...]