Berghaus Mens Freeflow 35 Litre Rucksack
Description
When you climb Kilimanjaro on our Advantage or Excel Series, you will carry as little weight as possible. The main reason for this is that you’ll acclimatise better and faster if your respiratory rate is as low as possible – which is why your guide will introduce you to the ‘Pole, pole‘ pace within 10 minutes of entering Kilimanjaro National Park.
We’re very reluctant to recommend large day sacks to be carried by our climbers on Kilimanjaro, because there seems always to be a psychological phenomenon at work in the realm of luggage containers, whereby whatever capacity of bag one carries, one tends to invent justifications to carry as many (unnecessary) items as the bag, coincidentally, has the capacity to contain.
Since we want you to travel light, enjoy the climb as much as possible, keep your centre of gravity as close to the centre of your pelvis, and ensure that the orientation of your head and neck is as close to upright as possible, so that you can see Kilimanjaro’s beauty, have your face seen easily by our guides and their assistants, and have your trachea as straight as possible to facilitate the important process of bringing oxygen into your body, we would say the following:
This day sack is truly an excellent option provided you make a deal with yourself not to fill it to more than 70% capacity at all times, except when you are descending from Uhuru Peak to Barafu or Kibo Huts.
The main advantage of having a more-capacious-than-usually-necessary day sack is that on summit night / morning you’ll begin with lots of clothing on, but after you summit and the sun rises and starts to warm you, the temperature will rise from an effective minus 10 Centigrade (in the darkness, with wind chill) to an apparent 20 degrees Centigrade (in the sunlight, as you start to drop below the ridge line). As the temperature begins to rise, we want you to have plenty of additional capacity in your day sack so that as it gets warmer you can start peeling off layers without the unwanted mental stress of knowing you’re going to have to wrestle with your pack while you negotiate each addition to its contents.
This is a safari itinerary that is recommended when the wildebeest migration is towards the south of the Serengeti.
This is a safari itinerary that is recommended for around January to February when the wildebeest migration is towards the south of the Serengeti. (Please note that dates depend on availability of flights and receipt of full payment).
Following a rigorous 8 days spent on Kilimanjaro this is a good, varied use of limited available time on safari, which strikes a good balance between game viewing, fascinating cultural insights, and activity on-foot.
After a very challenging trek on Team Kilimanjaro's Excel Series, this safari is a great use of limited time to enjoy some game viewing, fascinating cultural exchange, and vigorous on-foot activity in the heart of the African bush.
We read widely divergent estimates of deaths on Kilimanjaro, but how dangerous is it really? In this post we share our own experience of the dangers.
First of all - you can definitely still climb Kilimanjaro during COVID-19! There is absolutely no impediment within Tanzania. Issues only potentially arise with your own country's rules.
Although there is no requirement to have a PCR test for COVID in order to enter Tanzania, many climbers are nonetheless required by their airline to show evidence of a negative COVID test before boarding the flight home.
Since the onset of COVID-19 and the immediate and dramatic subsequent loss in booking numbers suffered by tour operators as a consequence of travel restrictions imposed both by governments worldwide, and initially, the Tanzanian government itself, it has been surprising to TK that the Tanzanian government has not made more effort to make information available to prospective travellers explaining how to go about ensuring that they are able to comply with their own country's travel requirements on returning from their Kilimanjaro climb or Tanzanian safari.
Most of this donation was given to the orphanage on 12th November 2020. Funds received during the climb will be given on 20th November, the day after the climb ends.
Kilimanjaro’s Western Breach is a beautiful and breathtaking place but represents the most risk-associated assault route to Kilimanjaro’s summit, of the four options currently sanctioned by Tanzania National Parks.
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