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- 6 Day Machame Route – Is It Smart?: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
There are some mountaineering companies on Mt. Kilimanjaro who sell 6 days treks on the Machame route. The idea is to present tourists with more options, creating a cheaper price, and shorter amount… - A few Common Kili Scams: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
Hard times always bring out the creativity in man. Necessity is the mother of invention. There are a slough of offers across the internet for cut price Kilimanjaro climbs being tendered by the lower… - Can They Make Kilimanjaro Safer?: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
To be honest, I don’t know if they can really make the mountain any safer. Sure – beef up the equipment, work on the trails, but you have thousands of people climbing it every month – something is… - Can They Make Kilimanjaro Safer?: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
To be honest, I don’t know if they can really make the mountain any safer. Sure – beef up the equipment, work on the trails, but you have thousands of people climbing it every month – something is… - Climber Dies on Kilimanjaro: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
It’s always sad to see this happen, but a climber on Kilimanjaro died. This seems to happen a few times per year, but it should not discourage you from going to climb the mountain yourself. There is… - Climber Dies on Kilimanjaro: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
It’s always sad to see this happen, but a climber on Kilimanjaro died. This seems to happen a few times per year, but it should not discourage you from going to climb the mountain yourself. There is… - Duffel Bag Liner – Gear on Kilimanjaro: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
Just like your day pack, you can use plastic bags to line the inside of your duffel bag. Even if you have a waterproof duffel bag, you should create another waterproof lining to help combat the rain… - Duffel Bag Liner – Gear on Kilimanjaro: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
Just like your day pack, you can use plastic bags to line the inside of your duffel bag. Even if you have a waterproof duffel bag, you should create another waterproof lining to help combat the rain… - Guide Scam – Have clients descend the mountain early: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
Another fairly good scam on Mount Kilimanjaro, often orchestrated by the guides, is to basically have the people come off the mountain earlier than… - Health Precautions On Kilimanjaro: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
If you are climbing any mountain – not just Kilimanjaro or Mt. Kenya, you should always keep this in… - Health Precautions On Kilimanjaro: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
If you are climbing any mountain – not just Kilimanjaro or Mt. Kenya, you should always keep this in… - I Thought I Was Dead: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
This is one of those stories about Mount Kilimanjaro that you don’t want to read. It’s the almost tragic experience of someone who made one wrong move while climbing Kilimanjaro – and it almost cost… - I Thought I Was Dead: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
This is one of those stories about Mount Kilimanjaro that you don’t want to read. It’s the almost tragic experience of someone who made one wrong move while climbing Kilimanjaro – and it almost cost… - Keep Walking – Stella Point: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
You have walked and walked, for day and days. You started your final ascent to the peak just over seven hours ago. It was the hardest, most difficult part of the trip – just going up, up and up. The… - Missing Climber Body Found in China: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
Sorry folks, this is non-Kilimanjaro related story, but does go to show you the power of mountains – something you should consider when climbing Kilimanjaro. As many of you know, one of the owners of… - Pulse Oximeter: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
Some of the mountaineering companies in Tanzania have introduced a system of checking the climbers – throughout the day – by using a Pulse Oximeter. A Pulse Oximeter is used to check blood oxygen… - Pulse Oximeter: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
Some of the mountaineering companies in Tanzania have introduced a system of checking the climbers – throughout the day – by using a Pulse Oximeter. A Pulse Oximeter is used to check blood oxygen… - Rescued on Kilimanjaro: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
How the park authorities define “rescue” is unclear, but it means the climbers probably suffered altitude sicknesses and had to be transported down the… - Rescued on Kilimanjaro: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
How the park authorities define “rescue” is unclear, but it means the climbers probably suffered altitude sicknesses and had to be transported down the… - Rising Cost of Safaris: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
Anybody notice how the once coveted “affordable” safaris in Tanzania has now becoming downright expensive for the average… - Scams on Kilimanjaro – Guides Take The Entire Tip, Promises To Distribute: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
As part of my week profiling scams on Mount Kilimanjaro, this is perhaps one of the worst scams. Like I mentioned in my last post, many porters rely on the tip as their many source of money, from… - The beginning of the end of Crater Camp: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
The current buzz in Kilimanjaro is the imminent closure of Crater Camp. I discovered this on my most recent trip when a few mates and I summited via the Western Breach and spent a long and ugly night… - The Fair Trade Principal in Kilimanjaro: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
The principal of Fair Trade came into vogue in the 1980s when Anita Roddick formed the Body Shop chain based on her own exhaustive confirmation that everything purchased and used in the manufacture… - Update on Kilimanjaro Porter Death: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
It appears that the porter was sick with a very bad cough, and he was vomiting blood at some point. Unfortunately, he stayed on the mountain for at least another 24 hours before being sent to a lower… - Want to feel like shit? Climb Kilimanjaro, mate.
Just because Mount Kilimanjaro is one of those well-known mountains that everyone likes to climb, you should be forewarned that it’s not always a happy experience. Climbing Kilimanjaro can, and will,… - Western Breach Investigation: Mt. Kilimanjaro Travel Guide
Here are the details from the investigation of the Western Breach, which killed a number of people back in…
