If you are trying to figure out whether or not the iconic “Snows of Kilimanjaro” are disappearing due to Climate Change (As Al Gore famously claimed in An Inconvenient Truth), don’t expect to find an easy answer from the media.  I searched “Climate Change Kilimanjaro” in early June. 

by Tim Ward, author of Zombies on Kilimanjaro  (May 2012, Changemakers Books). What are zombies doing in a non-fiction book about a father and son climbing the world’s highest freestanding mountain? As you near the frozen summit in the dead of night, sucking in air  that seems t

Kilimanjaro is known as “Everyman’s Everest.”  Although it’s the tallest peak, in Africa, and the highest freestanding mountain in the world, the route to the top – at 19,341 feet – has become a relatively easy trek. You don’t need ropes or mountaineering experience.  As a result, abo