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Climb Kilimanjaro with Walks Worldwide

Many, many people attempt to summit Kilimanjaro every year and there’s now a bewildering choice of companies offering Kilimanjaro trekking holidays. All we can say is be careful how and whom you choose to attempt your climb with.

We believe that Walks Worldwide is the best tour operator to climb Kilimanjaro with. Of course we can’t climb the mountain for you. Being fit and healthy yourself is paramount, but we can make sure that your own personal chance of success is significantly enhanced by providing you with first class support. After all, for most people it is a once in a lifetime opportunity, so why waste it?

Here are just a few reasons why Walks Worldwide is the best tour operator for Kilimanjaro:

Pre-booking advice and support – For all our Kilimanjaro trips we have extensive detailed trip dossiers crammed full of essential and helpful information about climbing Kilimanjaro. If you want to talk to someone who has climbed Kilimanjaro, then all you need to do is call us. We have experienced, friendly trekking staff whom have climbed Kilimanjaro themselves via all the options we offer.

Value – Our prices are exceptionally competitive, but that doesn’t mean we cut corners to make them cheap. See what we provide below. Not everyone does.

Choice – we have a massive number of departures and two different routes to choose from too. We purposefully avoid the busy routes like Marangu and Machame to make your once in a lifetime Kilimanjaro climb as amazing as possible.

Experience – Our guides are climbing Kilimanjaro around 20 times each year. They know the mountain better than anyone! Each chief guide has a licence from the Kilimanjaro National Park authorities, and their own team of assistant guides and porters. Our porters are well looked after, our local agent was a founding member of the Kilimanjaro Porter Assistance Project, which ensures porters are paid a good salary and adequately equipped. Since 1999 over 450,000 days of work have been provided for the 500 porters on Kilimanjaro who support our climbs.

Strong support on the mountain – Guide to client ratio of 2:1, especially important on summit day when assistance, encouragement etc is needed. This the best practice on the mountain.

Excellent equipment – we use quality three person Vango Hurricane tents for two persons, as well as a communal mess tent for meals with tables, chair and lighting. We provide a private toilet tent (with chemical toilet) meaning you don’t use the awful Kilimanjaro National Park long drop toilets. Yuck!

Responsible – We look after Kilimanjaro, it’s a busy mountain and that means a lot of rubbish. We carry off all our rubbish and regularly pay our porters to collect the rubbish less careless operators leave behind.

Great food on trek – Napoleon once said “an army marches on its stomach” and it’s the same for Kilimanjaro too. You can’t climb Kilimanjaro without the right food. We provide tasty, nutritious food and the trek menu is specifically designed for easier digestion at altitude, with a high liquid and carbohydrate content, essential for Kilimanjaro. Energy snacks are provided too. Our clients regularly comment as to how surprised they were to be able to eat such good energy providing food on the mountain.

Hygiene – Getting ill on Kilimanjaro can ruin your chances of success. As well as avoiding the awful Kilimanjaro National Park toilets, you will always have (except at high camp where there is no water) a bowl of hot washing water in the morning and at the end of each days walk. Handwashing water treated with dettol is made available before all meals and by toilet facilities too. Don’t come back with the T-shirt “I went to Kilimanjaro and all I got was sickness”.

Safety – The chief guide is very experienced in respect of altitude related matters; carries a medical kit and undertakes a one week International Red Cross first aid course, which has to be renewed every two years.

Acclimitisation – Our carefully planned itineraries take acclimatisation into account and have been operating successfully for almost 14 years. In the afternoons you trek to a higher level than the overnight camp and then descend back down to camp. Summit day, will always be summit day, a very hard slog, but with a considered and well thought out, proven approach that affords good acclimatisation, your chances of making the summit are greatly increased.

Don’t just take our word for it…

"Thank you for all your efforts in helping me organise our trip to Kilimanjaro. We had a fantastic time trekking and then summiting the mountain, although I would describe it as a hard walk the views were absolutely stunning. I would also like to commend all of the support staff who made our trip enjoyable from the cooks who preformed miracles on the mountain side, to the porters who did everything with a smile on their faces and the guides who were always happy to chat about anything and everything and also proved to be the difference in me making it up to the summit."

- Paul R.