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.
Images are of the properties visited and do not necessarily reflect the rooms to be allocated.
While it is absolutely in Team Kilimanjaro’s interests to encourage clients to visit Tanzania and use our Kilimanjaro and safari services, and we would therefore very much like to be able to advise that the Ministry of Health is competent to assist visitors with PCR testing, and to supply valid results within the requisite timescales, sadly, having already assisted many clients with testing and witnessed the procedures employed by the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, and received a great deal of feedback from tourists who are not our clients, we greatly regret that we are bound to disclose that the following are our findings:
Arusha Pedal Series club aims to organise a group ride three times a week - on Mondays, Wednesdays or Thursdays, and Saturdays. All keen cyclists are welcome to join.
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.
While it is absolutely in Team Kilimanjaro’s interests to encourage clients to visit Tanzania and use our Kilimanjaro and safari services, and we would therefore very much like to be able to advise that the Ministry of Health is competent to assist visitors with PCR testing, and to supply valid results within the requisite timescales, sadly, having already assisted many clients with testing and witnessed the procedures employed by the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, and received a great deal of feedback from tourists who are not our clients, we greatly regret that we are bound to disclose that the following are our findings:
While it is absolutely in Team Kilimanjaro’s interests to encourage clients to visit Tanzania and use our Kilimanjaro and safari services, and we would therefore very much like to be able to advise that the Ministry of Health is competent to assist visitors with PCR testing, and to supply valid results within the requisite timescales, sadly, having already assisted many clients with testing and witnessed the procedures employed by the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, and received a great deal of feedback from tourists who are not our clients, we greatly regret that we are bound to disclose that the following are our findings:
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.
I think the question of how much it costs to climb Kilimanjaro is a little like asking, how much it costs to buy 'a car'! Apart from the obvious question of how many people you want the car to carry and whether you want it to have offroad capability, there are more subtle considerations.
Kilimanjaro has been climbed from the park gates to the summit in a little over just 5 hours, and yet the Royal Geographical Society suggests that trekkers should not spend less than 10 days reaching the summit? So, how long does it usually take and what is safe?
🇺🇸 (510) 931 5895 | 🇬🇧 0207 193 5895 | 🇦🇺 07 3102 5895
🇿🇦 011 083 5895 | 🇹🇿 0766 469 373
WhatsApp | info@teamkilimanjaro.com
Facebook | 📸 Instagram | YouTube
TK Excel Road, Arusha, Tanzania
We accept: 💵 USD | 💶 EUR | 💷 GBP 👉 Wire transfers, SWIFT, SEPA & BACS
💷 GBP 👉 MasterCard, Visa & AMEX