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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have just found on Youtube some footage of the fabled 1974 expedition by two Spanish guys who drove their motorbikes from Igualada in Spain to Kilimanjaro - and then drove up Kili too, with one of them making it to the summit. I'm really chuffed to have discovered this, as this feat is [...]