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AN African adventure beckons for a teenager who is following her dreams to teach in Tanzania.

Amy Smith will spend four months working with classes of 80 children at a school on the slopes on Mount Kilimanjaro this summer - a far cry from her home on a Bostock farm.

The 18-year-old said: “The children walk between five and six miles a day to school and there are between 60 and 80 children per class - they’re really big. Continue Reading…

EIGHT friends from Wirral who are all celebrating their fiftieth birthday this year are marking the occasion by climbing Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro.

Ian Strettle, from Bromborough, is leading the challenging expedition and the team will start their ascent on February 18.

At 5,895 metres high, Kilimanjaro is the tallest free-standing mountain rise in the world and the team plan to take the more difficult Macheme route to the summit. Continue Reading…

VAIL, Colorado — Bryan Cash, Mike Orin and Ryan Sutter have done some fun things for a good cause.

The three Vail firefighters have run the Denver Marathon, and they’ve run the Colorado Outward Bound Relay (a day-and-night relay race) both to benefit charities.

Now their eyes are set on a more global way to help. They are going on a three-week trip to Kenya with some lofty plans. Continue Reading…

Turning 50 this year was a big milestone for Diane King.

Now she’s already on to her next big adventure: She and her husband, Paul Couch, will be climbing to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

The Gatineau couple is leaving to scale the highest peak in Africa late next month to raise money for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa. Continue Reading…

The Colorado Mountain Club is hosting a presentation by Dave Christiansen, who climbed Kilimanjaro in 2004 and plans to climb it in June 2008.

The meeting will be 6:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at the Farr Library, 1939 61st Ave., Greeley.
Christiansen will share pictures and stories of his climb along with photos of his safari into the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. He will also answer questions and talk with those interested in joining the 2008 trip.

The meeting is also a way to promote the Weld County chapter of the Colorado Mountain Club, which is open to the public and anyone interested in going on group hikes, learning more about mountains or the environment or meeting new friends. For more information, go to www.cmc.org.

Mount Kilimanjaro is a legendary peak and has filled climbers with awe, wonder and exhaustion almost since the beginning of the time. But it’s nothing compared to the legend of 77-year-old Ann Windh. She became the oldest woman in the world to ever climb the monstrous mountain when she completed the feat in October.

It’s a far cry from her home in Bronte, Ontario, but the retired - though hardly retiring - woman insists that’s exactly the point. It’s that rarified atmosphere that keeps her coming back for another peak at Mother Nature. “What an awesome feeling to sit on top of the mountain, right on top of the world,” she agrees. “You can see the glacier and the sad feeling knowing that in a few years it won’t be there any more.” Continue Reading…

Whether man evolved from apes or not, there is little doubt that little boys are little monkeys. They’ll scale anything.

Especially one particular primate from Los Angeles named Keats Boyd. He’s 7 years old, and he has a climbing instinct like no monkey you’ve ever met, CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports.

Keats’ parents, Bryan and Dana, are both flatlanders. Continue Reading…

A WORCESTER man is getting ready to scale the world’s highest freestanding mountain.

Standing 5,895 metres (19,336 feet) tall, Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest point in Africa and in just over 12 months, Matt Gammon, of Low Fold Close, St John’s, Worcester, will set off on an expedition to conquer it.

The former Royal Grammar School student, aged 23, is undertaking the challenge of the lifetime as part of his Adventure Tourism Management degree from the Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies. Continue Reading…

Right now, 45 Philips employees, their families and friends, are attempting to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro (5895m), the highest mountain in Africa, which is on the border between Kenya and Tanzania. They are doing this to promote energy efficient lighting as a part solution to the huge and growing problem of climate change. They also aim to raise money for an Oxfam Novib project in Tanzania:

Mt. Kilimanjaro - the last ice is going fast.

Although it was spoken of in the second century, Mount Kilimanjaro was only ‘discovered’ by the western world in 1848, when the German missionary Johannes Rebmann came within sight of the mountain, explored the area and traversed the lower slopes. He submitted his findings to the Royal Geographical Society, but his description of a snowcapped mountain in eastern equatorial Africa was doubted by these ‘experts’.

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