5 facts

1 kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in africa

2Kilimanjaro lies 205 miles South of the equator and stands on Tanzania’s northern border with

kenya

3 Rising 19,340 feet above sea level, Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa and the world’s

highest free-standing mountain

4- Today, about 15,000 people attempt to climb Kilimanjaro each year, as a spiritual journey or

as a personal challenge.

5- In 1889, German geographer Hans Meyer and Austrian mountain climber Ludwig Purtscheller were the first to climb Kilimanjaro