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.  Page one of the results included these media articles: Climate change will melt snows of Kilimanjaro ‘within

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 too thin to breathe, exhausted, you stagger toward the summit looking like a shuffling, brain-dead zombie. It seems

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, about 40,000 people make the attempt to climb it each year.  But more than half fail in their attempt. The reason? Acu

Excerpt from Zombies on Kilimanjaro: A Father-Son Journey Above the Clouds. By Tim Ward “Your guide will probably tell you,” Ezekiel said, when we first met at the Kilimanjaro Airport, “that the name Kilimanjaro comes from kilima, the Swahili word for ‘mountain,’ and jaro, the Maasai word for ‘white capped.’ But that’s just for the tourists. We Chagga people who have always lived here, we believe

Why do 40,000 people a year seek to climb the world’s highest freestanding mountain – a mountain so popular it has become known as “Everyman’s Everest?” Here are the top ten reasons  (from the viewpoint of one climber) from the most practical to the most profound: 1. Kilimanjaro is technically the easiest to climb of the Seven Summits (the highest mountain on each continent). You don’t