Safety and Climbing

1. Wake up : Usually wake up around 6:30 am with warm s bed tea which followed with hot water in washing basin for sponging and clear up.

2. Breakfast: Breakfast is served in mess tent around 7:30 am. The mess tent is equipped with all fold-able aluminum chairs, tables, dinner ware, silver ware and table clothes. After breakfast you will back on your tent to finalize packing of your day pack and back pack with general cleaners and then proceeding with hiking around 8:00 am to 8:30 am. You will always carry your day pack and hiking close with your guide while the porters will call all camping facilities and you back pack and hiking to designate place to settle your camp. On the way you will have schedule for break according to your performance while cooks and porters move ahead to set the tents and prepare hot lunch.

3. Breakfast: On shooter hiking days you will have hot lunch on arriving while on longer days you will have either lunch box or picnic lunch on halfway. If weather is good we set table outside to enjoy a nature. On arriving on camp you will service tea and have option of extra hike higher or rest.

4. Dinner: Dinner served on mess tent around 7:00 pm which follow with a day evaluation, discussion and brief about next day.

5. Camping style: In Marangu route we use hut accommodation and you stay in huts but on all camping routes Machame Lemosho we use quality tents.

6. Summit day: Summit day usually wake up around 11:30 pm and about 12:00 am start hiking to the summit –Uhuru peak and arrive when the sun comes up – early mooning around 6:30 am but depending on your pace. Hiking is usually slowly to allow you to acclimate and facing the steep summit climb which have switch beg.

For Kilimanjaro climbing we use the best tents and maintain them to the highest standards. Our tents are water and cold proof from Mountain hardware, Nothface and Eureka. Each Kilimanjaro trek is supplied by mess/dinning tents, crew sleeping tent, portable toilets and client tents. All our tents are good for travel at high altitudes.

A light weight wedge tent with space of three clients to be used for two clients and their stuff, the tents have comfortable shelter and strong aluminum poles which allows clients to set a super structure light and fly sheet.

How Mount Kilimanjaro Trail is for Mount Kilimanjaro climbs is well marked and maintained periodical. No technical skill required to climb Mount Kilimanjaro but only some sports like Machame trail Barranco wall where you need to scrambling for about an hour from 13,000 feet to 14,000 feet top of Barranco wall.

The path to Kilimanjaro summit is scree on shooter hiking days you will have hot lunch on arriving while on longer days you will have either lunch box or picnic lunch on halfway.

Staying at the Mt. Kilimanjaro camp need some outfit to cover the body and equipments. See the recommended list.

• Tracksuit pants
• T-shirts
• Sun hat(Peak caps do not offer enough protection)
• Woolens socks
• Fleece beanie
• Water bottle

Kilimanjaro & weather forecast Kilimanjaro best guide Mount Kilimanjaro weather is predictable and weather area changing depending on the, time location and elevation. Here with Kilimanjaro weather forecast show the weather precipitation, wind and humidity. The weather forecast gives also wind speed, rain, temperature, clouds and pressure.

Kilimanjaro Mountain are in Africa and the top of Kilimanjaro there is only 9.5% oxygen while most of people comes for Kilimanjaro climb living on sea level where oxygen level is 20.9% that may course their body to exercises on low oxygen and thus lead headache, nausea, HACE/HAPE and AMS. How can I do Pre Acclimatization for Kilimanjaro KLM Safars’ clients and guides on Kilimanjaro climbs. Pre acclimatization training for high altitude climbing will help to;

– Increase the red blood cells and effect on efficiency oxygen absorptions.
– Reduce the incidence of Mountain sickness.
– Increase the performance of the body mechanism for delivering to the muscles and thus increasing and aerobic and anaerobic performance.
– Increase breathing rate and oxygen intake and thus decrease the body asleep.

We are recommending:
1. Do aerobic exercises of the body to function with less oxygen as on summit day there is less oxygen.
2. Hike on hills and mountain or on gym trail machine to practice hiking.
3. Increase hiking distance and time of hiking to increasing your stability as on mountain you will have long hiking days.
4. Wear your boot and day park on hiking as you hiking with daily on mountain.
5. Eat more fruit and vegetable; reduce red meat, smoke and alcoholic.
6. Getting your body shape and physical trails.
7. Rest and sleep well
8. Practice sleeping in tents or with sleep mask.
9. Cardio exercises with mask like spin bike or elliptical will help.

KLM Safaris delivers the highest quality safety measures on Kilimanjaro. We take the following steps on your climb while you enjoy your adventure in Tanzania:

– We carry oxygen tanks on all our climbs.
– We carry a portable hyperbaric chamber (Gamow bag) on all our climbs and have a system in place for immediate evacuation off the mountain.
– We Using a pulse ox meter we will monitor your oxygen saturation and heart rate twice a day or more often if necessary.
– Every morning we listen to your lung sounds with a stethoscope to assess if there is any fluid on the lungs, a sign of HAPE.
– We will monitor your water intake to assure proper hydration. safety precation on Kilimanjaro climb.
– Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS). If AMS is not treated it can lead to more serious conditions like High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) and/or High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE) Each year a very small number of climbers die on Kilimanjaro. These deaths could be avoided if all licensed first aid guides which had high altitude medical training and carried oxygen and a portable hyperbaric bag. We travel with life saving equipment at all times when at high altitude. This equipment includes oxygen tanks, and a pressure bag, which are only used in the most life threatening altitude sickness cases.
– As part of our daily safety routine, we record and monitor various information pertaining to your body’s reaction to increasingly higher elevations.
– Our trips have been arranged to use daily climbing schedules and sleep to enhance your body’s acclimation.
– Our meals emphasize carbohydrates and other foods that increase the generation of heat and energy as we move to higher altitudes.
– Moreover, we move slowly. with light exercises and celebrations at every camp to make your trip in the mountains enjoyable.

Supplemental emergency oxygen is only necessary to sufferers from rare complications of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) who may develop High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE), a potentially fatal swelling of brain tissue as a result of poor acclimatization, resulting in confusion, paralysis and coma if unrelieved.

After using supplementary oxygen, you must not attempt to hike higher. Although it relieves breathing difficulty and oxygen starvation, it reverses acclimatization changes. Supplementary oxygen is routinely carried only for emergency treatment and not as an aid to climbers who wish to continue to the summit. It would be a very dangerous practice.

The Gamow Bag is only recommended at very high altitudes where fast and immediate descent is not feasible. One should never attempt to hike higher once symptoms arise on a Kilimanjaro trek as they can swiftly develop into High Altitude Pulmonary Edema, HAPE, where lungs are fluid congested and it is necessary to administer extra oxygen through a face mask. This is not possible in a Gamow bag.

Most of people have been asked how many days it takes to climb Kilimanjaro. The answer to climb Mount Kilimanjaro take five to eleven days depend on the route you’re taking to climbing the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Below is the summary of Kilimanjaro routes with route description and number of days recommended.

Summary of Routes and descriptions.

KLM Safaris has moved from budget company to a standard service company. We are the best among the local Tanzanian company with great success and the best experience possible. We do not depend on unscrupulous middle men, hence created our own market with reasonable standard affordable prices.

KLM Safaris do not use low price to attract customers as we do not want to cut off each cost restate to poor service. We know that our clients comes far away to visit us in Africa for their holiday to insure that our clients are not get streets with using bad facilities, poor mountain facilities, not good transport car and Service, delay on pick up, poor English speaking guides, lowest hotel for your stay in Africa.

KLM Safaris prepare the top notch service and best hotels, using Licensed guides, carry emergency life saving facilities in place and always on time, book with us in confidence.

We have published our package and prices per person as well as per person on sharing trip on all Kilimanjaro routes. Those cover Kilimanjaro park fee per person a day time number of days which is $ 142 which goes directly to the government. Standard food cost $ 20 per person a day as well as salary for crew and Taxes. We only offer the outstanding service and; Knowledgeable guides.

We have Best Tanzanian government licensed fluently English speaking guides with a medical knowledge.
We climb with medical life saving facilities and we are in place.

We use Tents which are water proof and high quality, all in good conditions.

We are Trustworthy Local Tanzania Company with the main office in Kilimanjaro.