What and where is Mount Kilimanjaro?
Mount Kilimanjaro, or ‘The Roof of Africa’, towers over the African landscape at 19,340 feet/5896 meters. Mount Kilimanjaro is situated in Tanzania, very close to the Kenyan border. This mountain offers the trekker the prestige of climbing the highest freestanding mountain in the world, while not requiring that the trekker have any prior climbing experience. Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest ‘walk-able’ mountain in the world, meaning any physically fit person with adequate preparation has a good chance of reaching the summit. This climb is not to be taken lightly, it is a tough hike to the top and requires physical and mental preparedness, but reaching ‘The Roof of Africa’ is well worth the effort.
