MIDDLE AGED SKIBUM: One of our client's Kim Hull's experience with Zara Tours. Nice article and pictures.

Kilimanjaro

I was sitting in my office one day when my friend, Tina, walked in and dropped a coffee table book on my desk.
“Kilimanjaro. So why did you buy a book about Kilimanjaro?,” I asked.
She said, “I am going to climb it and you guys should to.”
I laughed and said, “I don’t sleep in tents.”
48 hours and more than a few bottles of wine later, the three of us had decided that we were going to Africa.

Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro: Africa's highest peakKilimanjaro is the highest peak in Africa at 19,340 ft or 5,895 meters. It has three volcanic cones – Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira, with its highest summit being Uhuru Peak on Kibo’s crater rim.
Hans Meyer, a German geology professor, along with Ludwig Purtscheller, an Austrian mountaineer, and their climbing team reached the summit of Kibo in October of 1889. Read More

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