| Accidents on Mount Kilimanjaro | | | | of altitude sickness. The founder of the Game |
| Mount Kilimanjaro at 5964 m is the highest | | | | chain stores, Barry Clements, 57, collapsed four |
| mountain in Africa and highest free standing | | | | hours into the summit push and died of a heart |
| mountain in the world and one of the few peaks | | | | attack while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. |
| of this height that is non-technical (i.e. you do not | | | | Kili is one of the popular "Seven Summits" (highest |
| need ropes and pitons to climb it). As a | | | | summit on each continent). |
| consequence of this a significant number of | | | | Kili is one of the easier 7 summit mountains, and |
| tourists climb Killi every year. | | | | suffers a rapidly melting glacier. Over 82% of it |
| Having technical experience is not necessary, | | | | has disappeared since it was first surveyed in |
| however, at 5875m there is a very serious risk | | | | 1912. |