Mt. Kilimanjaro News
News Story: Seven blind people to climb Mt Kilimanjaro
A group of seven blind people from the United States, Japan and Switzerland will this week climb Mountain Kilimanjaro, the highest summit in Africa, local newspaper Daily News reported on Wednesday.
The team is set to arrive in Tanzania on Wednesday to head for the Machame entry point where their expeditions will start.
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Date: August 31st, 2005 |
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News Story: Adventurous couple climb Mount Kilimanjaro
By Susan Nolan
PORTSMOUTH - It’s fair to say Jason and Melanie Bocarro did not have your average honeymoon trip to Niagara Falls or the Poconos last month.
Following their wedding July 9, the Little Harbour School teacher and her new husband, a University of New Hampshire professor, took off for Tanzania.
Read Portsmouth Herald
Date: August 30th, 2005 |
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News Story: Fundraising above the clouds
A LOCAL adventurer has just completed a mountainous task to help raise more than £70,000 for charity.
David Healey, 36, pulled on his hiking boots to climb the 19,340ft to the top of Africa’s tallest mountain as part of the Kilimanjaro for Kirsty campaign. Along with the editor and deputy managing director from the Manchester Evening News and a bunch of fitness fanatics, Mr Healey endured six gruelling days of trekking through rainforest, African savannah and barren moonscape before reaching the summit.
Read Middleton Guardian
Date: August 22nd, 2005 |
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News Story: American races up Kilimanjaro
OAKTON, Va. (AP) — As he neared the end of his record-setting run to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Sean Burch got so excited that he decided to sprint the final few yards at top speed.
That was a big mistake.
“I threw up,” Burch said, “because I had run so fast to the summit.”
Then his legs locked up. The cramps were so bad he could barely move for an hour or so.
So, there he was, sitting on top of a gloriously beautiful African mountain, having made it to the top in 5 hours, 28 minutes, 48 seconds — and in no …
Date: August 30th, 2005 |
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News Story: Boy, 12, climbs Kilimanjaro in seven days
August 23, 2005
Dar es Salaam : A 12-year-old American boy, Ryan Eckert, may have set a record by successfully climbing Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, last week, his guide said yesterday.
“It took the boy seven days to reach the summit,” the guide, Honest Minja, said by telephone from Moshi at the base of the famed 5 895-metre white-peaked mountain in northern Tanzania.
Read Cape Times
Date: August 24th, 2005 |
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News Story: These boots were made for walking … on Kilimanjaro
JUST a few weeks ago Alison Ewing had never even bagged a Munro, but today the Inverclyde mother-of-two is celebrating after climbing to the top of the world’s highest freestanding mountain - and raising £3,300 for charity.
During her four-day hike to the top of Kilimanjaro in aid of the leukaemia charity the Anthony Nolan Trust she battled emotional and physical exhaustion, as well as overcoming the agonising affects of altitude.
Read Greenock Telegraph
Date: August 22nd, 2005 |
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