Mount Kilimanjaro 2008 – Areas to Research

In my previous blog, I mentioned that that part of my plan for trekking for the coming few years is to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro in 2008! While I was at Kukup with the people from NUS Rovers, I managed to get a couple of them interested about the trek. It’s not going to be an easy trek, for sure. There is a lot of preparation to be done in terms of physical fitness, as well as equipment.

According to my research one must train to at least walk several hours (several meaning about 8 hours!) on consecutive days… but I guess this information is not enough – I will need to research more on the physical training part.

With regard to the schedule for the climb, I have also found out that the best months to climb are between January to March, and July to September, because these are the dryer seasons. So I guess our climb will be July to September 2008, or January to March 2009. Set!

The trek itself would cost US$750 to US$2000 per person, and I’m think I should not save too much on these things, since the trek operators are the people who take care of you and may well be your source of life support should anything unfortunate happen. I will go for one that is reasonable (maybe about US$1000 – US$1200) and not too expensive. Again, this is one area that I have to do further research on.