An 89-year-old woman from Phoenix, Arizona, has become the oldest to climb Africa's highest mountain. Anne Lorimor, a former university instructor, reached the summit earlier this month after a nine-day trek. Anne climbed for Creating Exciting Futures, her own charity that she founded to support disadvantaged youth. This is actually not the first time [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An eight-year-old girl from Florida, US, has become the youngest ever female to climb Kilimanjaro all the way to its 5895m summit. Roxy Getter, from Punta Gorda, reached the summit with her family earlier this month. Also in their party was her dad Bob and mother Sarah, as well as ten-year-old brother, Ben - thus surely setting [...]
Kilimanjaro has picked up yet another record. Last month thirty women from across the world played a full ninety-minute football game (that's soccer to our American friends) in the Crater of Mount Kilimanjaro. The game, between Volcano FC and Glacier FC, ended in a nil-nil draw but the result wasn't really the point. The [...]
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 [...]