Africa mountain climbing
Tanzania mountain climbing
Central East Africa - Tanzania.
Mountain climbing programs, ascents and safari in Tanzania:
Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
The famous classic mountaineering program - climbing Kilimanjaro - the highest peak of the Black Continent - Africa. Technically, this program can hardly be called climbing - there are no obstacles to be overcome on this route. But do not forget the factor of altitude, which makes the ascent of Kilimanjaro really difficult for many climbers.
Climbing Mount Meru
Much less popular - comparing with the ascent of Kilimanjaro, climbing program in Tanzania. However, the ascent of Mount Meru allows to obtain certain skills and experience necessary for further mountain climbing in Africa. Mount Meru climbing program is a good acclimatization before climbing Kilimanjaro.
Wild life safari in the National Parks of Tanzania
Between climbing mountains in Tanzania, you can recover actively and usefully by visiting one of the many national parks of Tanzania, where they keep carefully maintained balance between civilization and the fragile world of wild nature. Within a few days, you can see numerous species of the Africa wildlife in their natural habitat.
Zanzibar active vacations
To relax on the beach, dive into the warm embrace of the Indian Ocean, wash away the dust of a long road to the top of Kilimanjaro, and just have a cool and relaxed rest in the end of all the Africa climbing! All this points to the fact that after Africa climbing adventure - the travel vacation on the Zanzibar island - that is a perfect solution to complete any climbing program in Tanzania.
Mountain climbing in Tanzania - it is not only Kilimanjaro climb!
Tanzania. This central African country became famous and very popular among tourists and climbers from all the world because of the fact that one of the most beautiful and fabulous mountains in the world is located on its territory - Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain of Tanzania and all Africa. Apart of Kilimanjaro, the dozen of Tanzanian mountains can be listed (mostly they are extinct volcanos), but there are no doubts that all that is just of the secondary importance comparing to the Roof of Africa - Kilimanjaro. In addition to mountain climbing, very attractive for the tourists in Tanzania is the variety of National parks, where everyone can meet face to face with the most of the species of the Africa animal world.
When the successor of Bismarck - Kaiser Wilhelm asked Kilimanjaro from Queen Victoria, his request seemed more like an ultimatum... The political situation in Europe did not allow even to think about the refusal of such a whim to the leader of the strongest European country... As a result of this minor historical fact, the modern straight border between Kenya and Tanzania, makes elaborate loop, skirting the highest mountain in Africa, in order to turn it into a part of Tanzania - a former German colony. This historic piece radically affected the current economic situation in these East African countries: income from the tourist boom on Kilimanjaro makes sizeable proportion of the national budget of Tanzania. At the same time Kenya remained content with the second highest mountain in Africa - Mount Kenya, Tana River, beautiful waterfalls and a small piece of Lake Victoria... For the first time, the leg of the white man was set on the completely covered by glaciers flat top of Kilimanjaro on the October 5, 1889.
The first conquerors of Kilimanjaro were famous Austrian explorer and geographer Hans Meyer from Leipzig and experienced climber Ludwig Purtscheller. Thrice Meyer tried to climb to the top of Kilimanjaro, but only the third attempt was successful - the climbers reached the Sunmmit of Kilimanjaro - highest point of "Roof of Africa" - an extinct volcano, nowadays bearing the name of Kibo. But on the old maps of Tanzania, you will not find such a title - the highest peak of Kilimanjaro they called the Peak of Kaiser Wilhelm - the name which was given by Meyer in honor of the Emperor of Germany, the nephew of the English Queen Victoria.
The name Mount Kilimanjaro - it is an origrinal name of colonial times, untouched by the political up and downs, the name given by the natives to the sacred shining mountain - in Swahili - Kilima Ndzharo means just that - "Shining Mountain".
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Our Principles
AlexClimb Rule #1 - Safety First
From the very beginning of our activity, here nearly 16 years, the first Principle of work of School of mountaineering and rock-climbing of MCS AlexClimb is the Safety Priority. On the basis of this Principle all process of training is based, all programs and rounds are developed and carried out only within this main principle. We consider that at professional approach to development of programs, at personal discipline and correctly put motivation - occupations by mountaineering and rock-climbing are COMPLETELY safe. And from the return - all troubles and accidents in our sport come from nonprofessionalism, from ignorance or neglect by elementary standards of safety, from irrational motivation, from revaluation of own forces and opportunities. All these prerequisites we COMPLETELY EXCLUDE in our work - ours Rock-climbing, Ice climbing and Mountaineering are based on one Principle - the Safety Priority. In rock-climbing, mountaineering and ice climbing, the Priority of Safety of MCS AlexClimb-is your personal security and comfort irrespective of, than we are engaged - we train muscles and we work technology of the movement in the sports hall and on the rock climbing wall, we make the way through snowstorm to top or we relax on golden sand of the Caribbean beach after hot day of trainings on rocks. The Safety priority - the main credo of School of mountaineering and rock-climbing of MCS AlexClimb.
AlexClimb Rule #2 - Leave No Trace
Closely interacting with Nature, working with the active programs in mountains, woods, lakes and rivers, we perfectly understand the importance of carefull and respectfull bahavior towards the Nature, for its resources. From the very beginning of our outdoor-activity we adopted rules of Leave No Trace technique - the standard of behavior of the person accepted in all the civilized world in relation to environment and especially - to the wild nature. After all on the relation of people to the nature near which they exist, itself can draw dalekoidushchy conclusions on the relation of these people to... Where and as we didn't travel - we don't reserve any garbage, we try to reduce whenever possible our influence on environment to a minimum. We clear earlier zagryazyonny tourist parking of the left garbage, we take out and we take out to utilization places that to us other people left there. We consider that only thus, at personal individual consciousness of each citizen, each tourist, climber or autotraveller, we will be able to keep the nature surrounding us in its state, natural, suitable for life, - in it pledge of the healthy future for ourselves and our children.
