Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro without risk

Author: Koos De Klerk

This article is to help people who plan to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. I will try and keep is simple and simple to read.

First of all you must train, I don’t mean go angry in the gym. get a good pair of boots and begin doing the hiking thing. We did 20km per weekend, 10km per day for 3 months. If you can do 20km and not have sore muscles you will make it physically.

We did the Machame route also known as the “Whiskey” route, the moment most difficult route but also the scenery is very rewarding.

Obviously the right gear is important. I only had very cold fingertips on summit night. The gloves was suppose to be ski gloves.
The dawn on summit day is spectacular!.

Altitude sickness can be a problem. We witnessed people in real danger.There is a product that you can use for altitude sickness called:”Dymox”. Superior use it before you go to see what effect is has on you. We only took quarters of the pill once a day and still had needles and pins in our finger tips for a minute or two. There are side effect so use wisely.

In our daypacks was the obvious 3liter of water.Please drink it all.It will be an advantage later on. Then we had snacks.
The snacks was products form the #1 Company in the Health and Wellness Industry called “Mannatech”.
They have sugar coated jellybaby like shewies but filled with fruits and vegeatables. We believe whether it was not for the Mannatech products we would not have had it that simple as we did not experience any altitude sickness symptoms what so ever.
We also add their sportsdrink into our water which helped with stifness.

We rented a lot of stuff as we did not think it neccesary to purchase the costly sleeping bag.We purchased the inner.

The rainforest is something to experience.we did it in September 2009 and no rain.

You also will experience loss of appetite.Please don’t skip food.You get breakfast, lunch and dinner. I only skipped coffee later on.
One mortal in our group skipped some food and he did not make the climb.

You will come back a different person.More fullfilled.

I hope the article helped those of you who plan to climb that illusion mountain mount. Kilimanjaro. with the right guide you will hear some stories about the mountain.

The singing of the porters at night in the overnight camps will be with me for a very long time.

I will miss the old lady.