This new guide is written in the proven Trailblazer style--with detailed walking maps showing hiking times, points of interest, and gradients.

Offers a challenging and beautiful trek to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, along with city guides for the surrounding area.

A SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF IMAGES AND WORDS THAT OFFER A DETAILED GLIMPSE INTO THE UNIQUE BEAUTY AND RHYTHM OF AFRICA’S NATURAL WONDER. Mount Kilimanjaro is the African continent’s highest mountain and the world’s tallest freestanding mountain. It is a geological wonder formed, sculpted, and molded by the natural forces of volcanic fire and glacial ice. At 19,340 feet (5895 meters) high, Kilimanjaro towers above the Great Rift Valley and lies 3 degrees south of the equator, on the northern border of Tanzania, close to southeast Kenya. Kilimanjaro is an accessible mountain that one can climb without the help of any technical equipment. The ascent starts from the cultivated lower slopes with dry blistering heat, through a lush, wet rainforest jungle, into heath and moorland zones, all the way up to the desolate alpine desert landscape and the steep, exposed arctic summit area, where one will experience breathtaking views of the legendary snows of Kilimanjaro. Moushabeck and Schulz invite you along as they explore and climb Mount Kilimanjaro. In this book they capture the essence of this majestic mountain with over 200 full-color photographs and an engaging and entertaining narrative that smoothly ties together personal observations with the mountain’s history, its people, and its ecology.

A father and son climb Mount Kilimanjaro. On the journey to the roof of Africa they traverse the treacherous terrain of fatherhood, divorce, dark secrets and old grudges, and forge an authentic adult relationship. The high-altitude trek takes them through some of the weirdest landscapes on the planet, and the final all-night climb to the frozen summit tests their endurance. On the way to the top father and son explore how our stories about ourselves can imprison us in the past, and the importance of letting go. The mountain too has a story to tell, a story about Climate Change and the future of humankind - a future etched all too clearly on Kilimanjaro’s retreating glaciers.

If you are planning a climb up Kilimanjaro, then you are in for a real treat. However, being the World's tallest free standing mountain brings its own challenges for which you MUST be prepared. If you take this trip lightly, then you will fail, get injured or even die. At 19,320ft, she will challenge you every step of the way but that effort will be worth it provided you do it safely and that mens getting prepared. This book 'Climbing Kilimanjaro' will give you a simple background of the beautiful Country Tanzania, the Region and the Mountain itself. It highlights the importance of preparation and goes through each route in detail separately. It highlights the differences in length and difficulty, helping you to make your decisions at home. It also talks about other aspects of Tanzania like Safari's, which are definately worth seeking out. Good luck on your expedition and be safe!

Chronicles a journey by foot across East Africa, and depicts the vanishing animals of a rapidly vanishing world.