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21 unusual facts about Mount Kilimanjaro


An Ice-Cream War

The first character introduced is Temple Smith (Walter Smith in the US edition), an American expatriate farm-owner/mechanic/engineer who runs a successful sisal plantation in British East Africa near Mount Kilimanjaro.

Antoni Jakubski

In 1909-1910, he traveled to East Africa, becoming, on 13 March 1910, the first Pole to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

B'wana Beast

With the help of his gorilla companion, Djuba, in a secret hideout at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, ranger Mike Maxwell drinks the aforementioned elixir and dons the helmet to become B'wana Beast.

Byrd Polar Research Center

Dr. Lonnie Thompson has led research expeditions to the glaciers atop Mount Kilimanjaro.

Chaga languages

Chaga, also Kichaga or Kichagga, is a Bantu dialect continuum spoken by the Chaga people of Tanzania, South of Mount Kilimanjaro.

College of African Wildlife Management

The College of African Wildlife Management (CAWM) commonly known as Mweka College or just Mweka, is located near the Village of that name on the southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, above the city of Moshi, about 14 kilometres north of its centre.

Excitebots: Trick Racing

For example, in Kilimanjaro, there are dinosaur fossils that come to life, Guatemala, the Moai statue heads can breathe fire at times, and in Tasmania, several rock monsters will alter tracks or attack players.

Funmi Iyanda

In 2012, she was honoured by the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, for her commitment to gender advocacy as she returned from a five-day UN advocacy trek up Mount Kilimanjaro.

Incoming

Secret work is started on an "ADATA" (Anomaly Detection And Tracking Array) near Mount Kilimanjaro.

Italo Cappabianca

He married his wife Linda Lou Cappabianca late in life, and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with two fellow legislators, Bill DeWeese and Frank Serafini.

Killamangiro

The title is a pun on the name of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, but further mixes in the song's lyrics about "killing a man for his giro" - a bank deposit method often associated with British unemployment benefits.

Kishumundu Secondary School

Kishumundu Secondary School is a private middle school in Kishumundu (east uru region), a small Tanzanian village at the slopes of the Kilimanjaru.

Kunlun Mountains

If they were considered mountains, they would constitute the highest volcano in Asia and China and second highest in the Eastern Hemisphere (after Mount Kilimanjaro) and one of Volcanic Seven Summits by elevation.

Louise Poirier

In January 2007, Poirier and a group of 33 climbers from Gatineau climbed Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro with proceeds donated to an orphanage in Moshi a nearby village as well as the Centre de Sante de Gatineau.

Make Sure They See My Face

The inspiration for the album came from Kenna's attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the title, inspired from a phone calls by Neptunes Pharrell asking Kenna; "are you going make sure they see your face?".

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

"We are all beautiful," replies the boy, "except you!" Afterwards, he catches a view of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest point.

Plant With Purpose

In February 2013, an organization called Wings of Kilimanjaro organized a group of almost 100 paragliders to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and fly from the top.

Plant With Purpose began working with communities in the Mt. Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania in 2004.

Plastered in Paris

The Inspector and Deux-Deux trail him up the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro where they find X at the edge of a mountain cliff.

Spirit Indestructible

The video is about Spencer West, a paraplegic who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro using only his hands.

Woodswomen, Inc.

In 1993 Woodswomen had 59 domestic trips and 11 international trips ranging from cross-country skiing in Minnesota to climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.


Andy Parfitt

In March 2009, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro along with Radio 1 presenters Chris Moyles, Fearne Cotton and seven other celebrities for Comic Relief 2009.

Battle of Tanga

The Battle of Tanga, sometimes also known as the Battle of the Bees, was the unsuccessful attack by the British Indian Expeditionary Force "B" under Major General A.E. Aitken to capture German East Africa (the mainland portion of present-day Tanzania) during the First World War in concert with the invasion Force "C" near Longido on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Cy Curnin

Curnin has since participated in other LHSF treks to Machu Picchu, Pike's Peak, Mount Kilimanjaro and in December 2012, Curnin returned to Everest with the organization.

Mantled guereza

caudatus, found in Tanzania and Kenya in the forests surrounding Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru.

Raed Zidan

Raed Zidan is an accomplished mountaineer who has reached six of the Seven Summits including Vinson Massif in Antarctica, Mount Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua in Argentina.

Richard Bass

Together with Frank Wells, one-time president of Walt Disney, Bass conceived of the adventure challenge of summiting each of the seven continents: Denali (Mt. McKinley), North America; Aconcagua, South America; Mt. Elbrus, Europe; Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa; Vinson Massif, Antarctica; Mount Kosciuszko, Australia; and Mt. Everest, Asia.

Scott Ragsdale

Notable physical achievements include summiting Mount Kilimanjaro, and completing the Marathon des Sables, a 7-day race across the Sahara desert - considered the toughest foot race in the world.

Suzanne Al Houby

Previously, she was also the first Arab woman to climb Mont Blanc, Mount Elbrus, and Mount Kilimanjaro.

Taveta, Kenya

1881 when Queen Victoria gave Mount Kilimanjaro away as a wedding present to her grandson, then Crown Prince of Prussia and later Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

William Todd-Jones

He has raised money for the charity by running marathons as a rhinoceros, appearing at fund-raising events, and by walking across Africa (from sea level to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro) in the rhino costume, alongside author Douglas Adams.