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An outstanding trek. Organisation was superb in every detail. Special mention to the African Walking Company for their guides, porters, cooks and everyone involved.
The Crater Rim summit in clear sunshine, and earlier in the week The Baranco Wall and Lava Tower
JT was really outstanding - in leadership, organisation and motivation
Whatever your age, it is essential to get as fit as possible ahead of the trek - whatever anyone else says. Particularly practice uphill severe walks with a backpack (eg in UK hill country).
Excellent. If you want to get to the top of Kilimanjaro and stand in awe on ‘The Roof of Africa’ which is surely why you are considering this trip, the eight day Lemosho Route is the trek for you. It’s the right length, with three days or more of going higher but sleeping lower and it will give you the best chance of making a successful summit bid.
All six of our group making the summit after being together for eight days, that incredible sense of satisfaction that comes from doing something that is not easy, that takes something from you, but gives you so much more back and the fulfilment of a long held ambition.
Joshua Mlay is an inspiration and his success rate in getting people to the top tells you all you need to know.
Keep your eye on the prize, eat, sleep, walk, repeat until there is nowhere higher to walk to on the whole great continent of Africa! and Good Luck!
This is one of those experiences that will stay with you for the rest of your life!
To stand on top of the worlds highest freestanding mountain and know that you did it on your own steam is a fantastic feeling.
waking up in the morning , opening the tent flap and watching the sunrise and the clouds far below you
I want to thank our chief guide , Mekeke. and the other guides for all of their help over the trip. Without their experience, humour, knowledge and encouragement we would not have all made it to the top.
If you are of average fitness, and you want to, you can do this, and you wont regret it! It,s easy for me to preach now that I have done it , but I was concerned that i wasnt fit enough, or I was going to suffer from altitude sickness , but there was only one way I was going to find out. do plenty of walking beforehand, follow the packing lists on this site , and trust your guides to look after you !
Superbly organised and our guides / porters were the best!
Reaching the summit, against all the odds.
Our group leader, Makeke, went above and beyond to make sure that I reached my ambition. He's an excellent asset for Exodus and I wouldn't have made it to the top without him. A true professional who takes real pride in his job and simply looks after everyone in his care.
This is a tough, indeed gruelling physical challenge but well worth it.
I couldn’t have asked for a better Kilimanjaro experience than what I had with Exodus. The guides and rest of staff were incredibly knowledgable and attentive, the Lemosho route was beautiful and varied in its scenery and summit night – though mentally and physically taxing – was an incredibly fulfilling experience.
Summiting the mountain was obviously very inspirational but I also thoroughly loved the Shira Cathedral and the Branco Wall climb.
My group leader John Maeda was a really big reason the experience was so great. He was so knowledgeable and switched on and was loved by everyone in the group.
A gruelling but worthwhile trip.
Obviously the summit for those who reach it, otherwise the imposing Barranco Wall.
Abraham from the Africa Walking Company is a gifted and strong leader, managing as he does 57 guides and porters not to mention 14 walkers. The sheer logistics of getting all of us up the mountain at the same time with no hitches would make me dizzy! The guides were watching us all the time and checking our condition, giving advice and generally keeping us going. We were also extremely well fed and lacked nothing to eat or drink, the chef and porters were all fantastic.
Take Exodus` notes seriously and be well prepared. The whole point of this trip is to get you up Kilimanjaro in pretty extreme conditions. It is not for beginners and is a hard climb even for experienced walkers. The camping, though well organised, is fairly basic. Once wet, stuff can`t really be dried, you will be cold and uncomfortable a lot of the time. You will need to be determined and resourceful. The walking itself is ok until summit day but gets harder as the oxygen levels drop. This trip gives you an extra day to acclimatise and no one in our group had serious altitude sickness beyond breathing difficulties. You just have to do everything very slowly indeed, even standing up!
Very challenging but ultimately rewarding trip. Camping is a pain in the neck after a while. Prepare to be dirty, cold and generally uncomfortable for the whole trip, I think this got to me more than the walking. I believe Kili is quite scenic but it was misty for us most of the time and I could have been at home in Scotland out a damp hillwalk.
Getting to Uhuru peak after a 7.5 hour slog up the scree with hilariously low oxygen saturations. Going a bit mental on the top and having fabulous 'runner's high' type thing going on on the way back to Stella. Wish I could have bottled that. Hypoxia can be fun! Relaxing on Zanzibar afterwards wasn't too shabby.
Abraham was a great guy and ably assisted by his team of guides. Mama Lucy helped me the most but Stratton, Hans, Angela, Innocent and Tosha were all brilliant too as were the cook and porters. I left some old equipment with them. I was lucky to be part of a great group who really made the trip.
Take it very slowly indeed, the speed seems ridiculous at first but quickly becomes a necessity. Leave your type A personality and desire to win at the door, on this trip the tortoises will get there in the best shape. There is no rush, what are you going to do with extra time in camp? We had lots of card games, hypoxia induced silliness and new sport called toss the rock. Camping just annoyed me after a while. I had my own tent and it was well worth it just to have my own space. They are big enough but I'm not convinced that sharing with a random and 2 people's equipment is a good idea when the experience is stressful enough as it is. Snoring gets worse at altitude. Bring ear plugs. Bring LOTS of snacks. Minstrels travels especially well. Ladies, check out a She-wee and Pee-bols for night time. Try to look after each other. Everyone will have a bad day at some point (Lava Tower for me, it can happily be erased from my memory for ever!). If you are lucky enough to be feeling well, try to divert some of your energy into helping those who are not with some daft games or a supporting arm or hug. It is much more satisfying to help others to succeed as well as yourself and to get there as a team. A couple of folk had music on their phones, this was a great boost during hard bits although it was hard to sing along to Africa by Toto on summit night! Try to learn some Swahili from the guides, you've got nothing better to do!
A well organised and coordinated trip lead by the African Walking Company who displayed a high level of professionalism and made the trip an enjoyable one for all participants. The passion for the mountain which the guides demonstrated and the effort by the team as a whole for helping us achieve our personal goal of reaching the summit was evident daily and greatly apreciated.
The dedication of the guides to helping us all achieve our goal particularly during those moments when the terrain was difficult and during summit night when everyone found the going tough.
Abraham did an amazing job organising a large group of people which encompassed numerous porters, guides and ourselves as clients. Although much of his work was behind the scenes when coordinating the porters he was always observed speaking with them to ensure everything worked smoothly. His manner with both clients and porters was inspirational.
A fantastic, challenging but exhilarating experience! If you are thinking about it – do it!!
The highlight for me was the people that I spent this most amazing experience with and to have all 12 of the group reach the summit.
Abraham was great, he was very informative about the trek and kept a close eye on all the group checking that no-one was suffering from Altitute sickness.
Just be prepared, make sure that you have the right gear to tackle all sorts of weather eventualities, keep fit and most of all have a "postive mental atitude".
This was my second and successful attempt on summiting Kilimanjaro in nine weeks. On the first attempt I was recommended to abandon the trek at 5,000m because breathing had become difficult and I was suffering the first signs of “freeze-up”. I shook hands with my guide, Naiman, and did as he asked and returned to camp. These guides watch you like hawks and will know the state of your health better than yourself. Respect them. When I returning in October (I’m not a quitter!) I was better equipped and the Kili Weather Gods were kind to us: summit night, this time, was relatively mild (-2 degrees – instead of -14 degrees without the terrific winds we had in August) and reaching Stellar Point and ultimately Uhuru peak just after sunrise was magical as was the icecapes and amazing vistas.
Strangely, it was not summiting Kili - though this was a terrific moment for me - but the amazing duty of care, love, fun and professionalism extended to me and our trekking group of 12 by the guides, assistants and porters on this amazing pilgrimage. These guys (and gals) from the African Walking Company (Exodus's Tanzanian agents) are wonderful ambassadors for both companies as well as for Tanzania - nothing is too much for them. They are worth their weight in gold! Meke, Naiman, Viviano, Abraham, Tosha, Innocent, Lucie, Angela, and the caring, caring porter/tent attendant Kai - and many more, they are priceless and a credit to any organisation. Wish we could import them all to the UK!
I had two, of course, because I did two trips with Exodus. Both, Meke and Abraham and their deputies, including Naiman, were amazing. Professional, watchful of any signs of Mountain Altitude Sickness and ready and quickly to deal with it. At the same time, we trekkers were able to examine flora and fauna, superb views and the snap the engaging monkey groups in the sub-tropical zones. But the bond that grew between our 12-strong group of trekkers and The African Walking Company guides and porters, with their fun and Can Do attitude, will remain with me for life.
Go for it! At 66, I may be a little old to start trekking adventures - but this is just the start!