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It may be somewhat misleading to describe an expedition to Kilimanjaro as a holiday. While there will be plenty of opportunity for rest and relaxation on the evenings on the mountain, on rest days and on safari, still, an ascent that takes you 2½ miles up into the sky over five difficult days is not really something to be likened to a fortnight spent on a Caribbean beach.
Visitors to East Africa are drawn to Kilimanjaro for a common reason: they want to take something away with them. If the prospect of a break away from all the pressures and stresses of a busy western life is attractive, and yet the idea of lazing around for a couple of weeks doesn’t quite seem to cut the mustard, then you are probably the sort of person who would relish the challenge of an expedition up Africa’s highest peak.
Kilimanjaro summiteers all testify to the fact that the sense of achievement derived from bagging this peak is incomparable to any other experience one finds in ordinary life.
But beware, success on Kilimanjaro is likely to inspire a lifelong addiction to getting yourself high. Many families in retrospect bewail the day their son or daughter, husband or wife, brought back this trophy. Kilimanjaro’s summit will give the adventurer such confidence at altitude, that nowhere in the world will any longer deter him or her.
Kilimanjaro is the safest of the renowned 7 summits. It is a logical progression to use the remaining six as venues from which to base future “holidays”.
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