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MOUNT KILIMANJARO CLIMB
ONE OF THE BIG SEVEN
 PNG Trekking Adventures never takes the normal route. This is a unique and out there climb. Visit the Ash Pit in the Crater and you will experience something not too many climbers of Kilimanjaro have seen.
Standing astride the equator, yet permanently snow-capped at 5895m (19340ft), Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s rooftop and the world’s highest freestanding mountain. Surrounded by some of the world’s greatest game reserves, Kilimanjaro towers above these hot, fertile plains like a massive sentinel, beckoning adventurers to climb her.
Many travellers are attracted to her highest point-Uhuru Peak on Kibo - which can be reached by several easy walking or scrambling tracks. The two main summits of Kilimanjaro: craggy Mawenzi, 5149m, and ‘flat-altitude, semi-desert. Kilimanjaro possesses a whole range of environments including the summit glaciers, screes, cliffs, afro-alpine moorland then forests, which lead down to cultivated foothills.
MAIN TRACKS ON KILIMANJARO
The Machame and Umbwe tracks are tough yet very scenic ways up Kilimanjaro. Steep forest paths, easy scrambling and airy ridges lead to the final screes and hence the crater. Nights are spent in tents. The Mweka Track is generally used to descend after all tracks.
The Shira, Nanjara and Oloitokitok Tracks are more remote. The most remote Lemosho Glades Track is particularly beautiful and goes through one of the few areas of Kilimanjaro that is rich in game. We are taking you along the Lemosho track via Arrow Glazier and the Crater.
EXPEDITION GRADE
This Kilimanjaro expedition is considered a Difficult to Strenuous expedition. High altitudes are reached so please read trail information carefully.
WHEN TO CLIMB
Even though one can climb through the year, January, February and September are the best months, with June, July August, October and December also being good.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
Equatorial to arctic conditions are present on Mount Kilimanjaro. The range begins with the warm, dry plains with average temperatures of 30 c, ascending through a wide belt of wet tropical forest, through zones with generally decreasing temperatures and rainfall, to the summit where there is permanent ice and below freezing temperatures. The temperature at the top of the mountain gets as low as minus 25 degrees Celsius.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
- Climb up one of the biggest mountain in Africa
- Stand on the top of Africa as the sun rises
- This is a unique route which not many people get the opportunity to climb
- Enjoy the spectacular eco systems that we trek through.
- We overnight in the Kilimanjaro Crater prior to summit day
- Make the effort to walk to the “Ash Pit” whilst staying in the Crater
Trip Length: 7 days
Start/Finish: Moshi - Kilimanjaro – Moshi
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