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 [...]
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 [...]
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: http://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 [...]
Once again the record books are going to have to be rewritten: Swiss-Ecuadorian Karl Egloff has just set a new speed record for climbing Kilimanjaro and returning to the gate again, completing the distance in just 6 hours, 56 minutes and 24 seconds. Karl achieved this time by taking the notoriously steep Umbwe Route [...]
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 [...]