2. KILIMANJARO, TANZANIA.

National Park, Kilimanjaro.

 

While Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the world’s largest topographical features, none of the six routes requires any technical skills or specialist equipment to climb, (though for Western Breach climbers we recommend that some supplementary equipment be considered). And although the height gained from the different start points to Kilimanjaro’s peak at 5,895m is around 15% greater than from Mount Everest’s southern Base Camp to its summit, climbing Kilimanjaro does not require the use of slow and arduous Himalayan-style siege tactics, or of supplemental oxygen.

For those as yet entirely unacquainted with the mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro is a volcano situated quite close to where Africa’s three main tectonic plates meet. For perhaps distantly historical reasons, there remains a widespread misconception that Kilimanjaro is either in Kenya or at least straddles the Kenyan-Tanzanian border. This is not true, however, as the mountain sits entirely within Tanzania and is managed by the Tanzania National Park Authority, through the local administration of the Kilimanjaro National Park Authority.