Everything you need to plan a climb, in the order you’ll need it: routes, timing, fitness, kit and costs.
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Our own routes, groups of eight at most, and a 97.6% summit success rate, explained with evidence rather than adjectives.
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Every climb we run, with prices from, and the scheduled departures you can join.
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Seven support series from Superlite to VIP, and what each one includes.
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Up and down in a day or two if you are already acclimatised, or acclimatise first: permits, plans, maps and a price calculator.
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Training, health requirements, visas, vaccinations, insurance and flights: what to sort out, and when.
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Height, peaks, temperatures, route lengths, wildlife and records, all checked against our own data.
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Every route on one map, from our own GPS tracks, with distances, crowding and acclimatisation compared side by side.
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Steep and direct from the south, leaving little time to acclimatise. 46.3 km round trip.
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The busiest camping route, climbing from the southern rainforest onto the Shira Plateau before traversing beneath the Southern Icefields. 56.7 km round trip.
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The quietest start, from the western forest onto the Shira Plateau. The standard route joins Machame beyond Shira 2; TK Lemosho, our own variation, takes the quiet northern circuit and summits from School Hut. 64.7 or 66.4 km round trip.
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Starts high on the Shira Plateau, reached by vehicle: only for climbers already acclimatised, for example after Mount Meru. Seven or eight days, or joined to TK Lemosho.
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The hut route, and the only one that comes down the way it goes up. It has the lowest success rate of the main routes. 66.9 km round trip.
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From the north, near the Kenyan border. The Rongai most companies run crosses the Saddle to Kibo Hut; TK Rongai, our own, climbs over the Mawenzi ridge and summits from School Hut. 68.0 or 72.2 km round trip.
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4,566 m, above Arusha: the best acclimatisation before Kilimanjaro. Three or four days, sleeping in huts.
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