A six-year-old boy has become the youngest person ever to climb Kilimanjaro. Coaltan Tanner, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the US, reached the summit on 22 October 2018 at 11.40am. He was born on September 18th, 2012, meaning he was just six years, one month and a few days when he made it to Uhuru [...]
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 now [...]
We have had reports recently that KINAPA, the Kilimanjaro National Park Authorities, have started to enforce certain rules that had previously been, if not exactly ignored, then certainly regularly flouted. One of these rules states that children under 10 are not allowed to go to the summit, but only to 3100m. Although this rule has [...]
Anybody who’s spent more than a day or two on the mountain will undoubtedly have heard the guides and porters belting this song out. Indeed, it seems rare to arrive at a campsite these days and not hear it being sung by one expedition or another. By the end of the trek, it’s highly [...]
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 planned [...]
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 by [...]
Just in case you missed this one, earlier this month several UK newspapers reported the story of a woman who had agreed to accompany her daughter on a climb up Kilimanjaro - only she thought it was in Wales. Apparently, Nikki Barnett, from Nuneaton, had always had trouble pronouncing Welsh place names and so assumed that, because she [...]
It's finally been officially confirmed that Dr Fred Distelhorst, a retired orthodontist from Vail, Colorado, has become, at 88, the oldest person ever to climb Kilimanjaro. Dr Distelhorst climbed with his grand-daughter, Ellen Edgerton, who was already in Tanzania volunteering for a charity project. The duo took six days to climb Africa's highest mountain, finally reaching [...]
Mark Lloyd, 33, an ex-soldier from Pontypridd in South Wales, was today jailed for 20 weeks for benefit fraud. Mr Lloyd claimed that he was unable to walk more than 50m in order to claim thousands of pounds in disability benefits - yet during this time he then spent on activities such as climbing Kilimanjaro and [...]
In amongst all the fun and enjoyment that happens when climbing Kilimanjaro, it's easy to forget how dangerous the mountain can be. Because Africa's highest mountain definitely has a dark side, with around half a dozen people dying each year in their attempts to conquer it. This was brought home to me recently when I came [...]