Kilimanjaro - The Trekking Guide to Africa's Highest Mountain: All-in-one guide for climbing Kilimanjaro. Includes getting to Tanzania and Kenya, town ... on 35 detailed hiking maps. (Trailblazer) Paperback – October 7, 2018

This is the definitive guidebook about how to plan your trip, what to do to get ready, what to know about your hike, and a lot of good advice. My friends and I were planning a trip in 2025 but too soon so doing a week in 2026. The author has a lot of good advice and even has a list of companies that offer Kilimanjaro excursions. Would highly recommend adding 2-3 days to do a safari park since you are there in Tanzania. I'll update this review after our trip.

I really liked this book. The author has shared a lot of information and its well written.I recieved this book just few hours ago and I am only at page 69. I am glad I came across your book. Its worth very penny I have spent and beyond.

This covers not just the mountain, but the area around it. It hypes up the climb and makes the mountain sound more intimidating than I found it to be.

I got this for my girlfriend before her trip to Kilimanjaro. She read this every day before her trip and every night during her hike. She loves the book and said she highly recommends this book for any other Kilimanjaro hopefuls. Also, she is very well traveled. She has visited more than 60 countries and I buy her these books for all of her trips, so she has a lot of experience with guide books.

Awesome book, informative on multiple aspects. We planned our trek to Kilimanjaro through a local Moshi company, based on recommendations out of this book, some thoughtful planning. The book is is thorough, well organized, well written and humorous. Our trip was fun, safe and successful, and budget was less than half of what it would be if you booked through a US tour. Expect to put in about 30 hours or more of prep time to learn the routes, decide where to go, weeks of emails to the company and to your fellow travellers (we had 7 close friends in our trip to organize.) Put in due diligence to reassure yourself that the wire transfer is going to a legitimate company. (I checked ours several times through several ways, including checking on the NGO status of a company that ran the hotel we stayed at, who was closely associated with the trekking company we used.) When I was there, I did chat with 2 of the other local guide groups that I had been considering, and they all would have been excellent. picture is of our cheerleaders and guides.

Lots of cool insights

I thought the guide provided a fairly comprehensive overview of what's involved in a Kili climb and was a useful resource on the history, flora, fauna and geology. I thought it was less useful on the route descriptions, where the most popular variant of the Lemosho route had to be pieced together from various different descriptions. The descriptions of suffering along the way were a little melodramatic (if amusing).My biggest complaint is that the optically objective listing of trekking firms is incomplete and misleading. Based on internet research, we had picked Peak Planet as a firm that fully endorsed the KPAP guidelines and promised a well guided trek with a focus on the fair and ethical treatment of the folks who actually do the hard work (the unbelievable porters, guides, cooks and other crew). [As an aside, few trekkers would make it to the top without the support of the Tanzanian teams]. Peak Planet then exceeeded our expectations in every respect--great crew, sensitive to the challenges that individual trekkers faced, clearly very happy and proud of the firm they worked for, fair pricing and transparency on costs. Everyone in our group and the other Peak Planet treks going on at the same time would recommend them without reservation. For inexplicable reasons, the firm isn't even mentioned in the Stedman book. So I'd suggest anyone considering a trip take Stedman's own caveat to heart and not rely on his listing as gospel in any way.

I am going there pretty soon, so I needed some detailed info what it takes. This book is it. If you are going up Kilimanjaro and you did not look at this book you may not be prepared. Kilimanjaro is 19000 feet high. Be prepared for altitude disease, how to take steps to avoid it, how to prepare for the climb, what gear to buy, how to find the right company to go with (you can't go it alone, it is not permitted by Tanzanian government), what kind of innoculations to get. There are 7 routes up the mountain and this book has super detailed descriptions of each route, including small altitude maps that will help to know what you are up against. Statistics show that only 50 percent of climbers make it to the top, if you don't prepare and get the knowledge you need, you may be one of them. Great color photos, lots of advice. I love this book!