At 19,341 feet, Mount Kilimanjaro ... Looking up, we had our first clear view of our ultimate destination, Kibo, the highest of Kilimanjaro’s three volcanic cones. Our porters darted ahead ...

Vidya Singh in Chennai is literally scaling greater heights. She's become the oldest Indian to summit mount Kilimanjaro. NDTV ...

The mountain is deceptive. "When you look at Kilimanjaro from a distance, it just looks manageable," says hiker Dick Munson, whose 2000 attempt to conquer it was halted 1,000 feet from the top ...

Sure, it was the middle of August, the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro’s high season ... on the basalt behemoth that the Maasai and Chagga view as the seat of God. You’re unlikely to land a North ...

I want to try to encourage people to go and try challenges like this — not to let their disabilities or illnesses limit them, ...

According to Travel + Leisure, it takes at least a week to complete a hike to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro — which, at 19,341 feet, is the world’s tallest freestanding mountain. With “the ...

Beyond four decades of memories and a new route up, Skip Horner left another legacy on Kilimanjaro: 20 pairs of boots for ...

In recounting his journeys to Mount Kilimanjaro, ecologist Marcell Peters remembers how difficult it was to breathe at more than 3,500 meters above sea level. Up in the subalpine forests on the upper ...

Each of Kilimanjaro's six distinct ecological zones has its own climate and coterie of flora and fauna. Beginning with the band of rain forest that girdles the mountain's base starting at about ...

Beyond four decades of memories and a new route up, Skip Horner left another legacy on Kilimanjaro: 20 pairs of boots for local guides, from The Trail Head in Missoula.