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:
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| Mt. Kilimanjaro - the last ice is going fast. |
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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’.