A new report from the National Academy of Sciences in the United States released today estimates that the ice fields atop Mount Kilimanjaro and on its flanks will likely disappear within several decades, if...
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On June 8th Johnny Strange, a 17-year-old high school senior, broke the world record for youngest person to climb the highest summit on every continent, the Seven Summit challenge, by scaling Mount Kosciuszko in Australia. The previous record was held by 18-year-old Samantha...
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Kilimanjaro Education Foundation (KEF) today announced the addition of John Greenberg to its board of directors. Greenberg is President and co-founder of Goodmind, (www.goodmind.net) a leading market research...
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"“For all the Pan-Africanism of the last four decades,” said Hugo Van Vuuren, “it is quite rare to have young students from South, East, and West Africa, in the same room without a soccer ball somehow...
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"The Woodses are part of a travel trend that Ken Shapiro, the editor in chief of TravelAge West, a magazine for travel agents, calls "the Tourism of Doom."
"It's not just about going to an exotic place,"...
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I've spent the last two solid days in internet cafes in Lusaka writing up our continuing adventures in Africa - this time covering our fantastic five day Tanzanian safari to Lake Manyara, the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater, together with the harrowing account of our...
Bern Goosen, the First Man to Successfully Summit Mount Kilimanjaro
in a Wheelchair, Will Attempt to Break His Own World Record and Set a
New Time for the Fastest Wheelchair Summit
XL Results Foundation Announces...
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"NARO MORU, Kenya - Rivers of ice at the Equator â foretold in the 2nd century, found in the 19th â are now melting away in this new century, returning to the realm of lore and fading photographs.
From mile-high Naro Moru, villagers have watched year by year as the...
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MONTREAL (CP) - Michele Piuze, wife of former Canadiens goalie Patrick Roy and a self-described extreme sport fanatic, says she didn't think twice when asked by a friend to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for the Montreal NHL team's children's charity.
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