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Article: Climbing Kilimanjaro when you are blind ...: Kilima Njaro means "shining mountain" in K-Swahili, the native language in Tanzania.
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- Earth Focus One Planet-One Community
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- September 22, 2006
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The Mountain, 5,895 meters (19,340 feet)
Kilimanjaro, located near the Kenya-Tanzania border, is an extinct volcano that is one of the most massive of its kind. With its summit, Uhuru Peak, on a crater rim called Kibo you can get a spectacular view of the 1.5-mile wide crater. In the centre of this crater there is a dip of about 600 feet filled with sulphurous ashes. Kilimanjaro towers above the Great Rift Valley, which is said to be the possible birthplace of humankind.
Over the summer of 2005, I had the opportunity to climb this wonderful mountain. Not just to reach the summit but also to help 8 blind climbers do so as well.
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