Author: TranquilKilimanjaro

The Drake Bulldogs and CONADEIP All-Stars from Mexico will have gone across the world to play each other on the field at the Sheik Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium in Arusha, Tanzania on Saturday, May 21. This game will be the first American football game to ever be played in Africa. Tanzania National Parks Association (TANAPA), the event's presenting sponsor, has teamed up with the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl to raise awareness of Tanzania's numerous national parks. The teams are equally enthusiastic to tour two of Tanzania's National Parks while in the nation, even if their main goal is to play the first-ever American college football game on the African continent. The majority of Tanzania's land is protected by the government, making it a popular tourist destination and the country's main source of income. The 19,341-foot Mount Kilimanjaro is known as Africa's Rooftop, and each year, some 45,000 tourists climb its slopes. Even though only approximately half of those people make it to the peak, they all have an incredible journey through a variety of topographical features, vegetation zones, and animal habitats. Some of the most stunning views in the entire world may be found looking out over the surrounding savannahs, which extend in all directions from the lower slopes. The Kilimanjaro National Park region, along with the other 14 national parks and 32 wildlife reserves, is carefully maintained and managed by TANAPA. The Serengeti National Park, which USA Today designated as the New Seventh Wonder of the World in 2006, is the most well-known of these. The Olduvai Gorge, the human race's origin site, the Selous, the largest game reserve on earth, and Ruaha, currently Africa's second-largest national park, are also included in this list. Through its role as the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl's Presenting Sponsor, TANAPA will have the chance to

At the summit of Africa's tallest mountain, a stray dog has been observed scampering around. Vets are baffled as to how the mongrel managed to reach the 19,000-foot-high Kilimanjaro. Last night, experts were attempting to determine how the dog, which was discovered by a party of climbers, had managed to survive the extremely difficult circumstances on the Tanzanian mountain. According to a story in Kenya's Daily Nation, the surprised climbers were so taken aback that they phoned local publications to report the encounter. Wilfred Marealle, a Tanzanian animal expert, was astounded to find that a dog had scaled the massive ice-capped peak. 'A dog hiking to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro is not something you see every day,' he remarked. The animal was discovered by a party of four international climbers, including tourist Antoine le Galloudec. 'As I was emptying myself, I noticed the dog sleeping about a meter away from where I was standing on a rock,' he claimed. Experts were working today to figure out how the animal survived the infamously difficult circumstances at Kilimanjaro's Uhuru Peak. Because the section of the mountain where the dog was discovered is so high, temperatures are regularly below freezing, and climbers are cautioned about the dangers of altitude sickness. Local officials speculated that the stray animal may be the same dog seen a decade ago near a camp lower down the mountain. 'When the visitors showed us the photo of the dog, we couldn't believe it,' said Tanzanian tour guide Abel Edward. What was it eating and how did it live in such bitter cold? Mount Kilimanjaro is the fourth tallest of the Seven Summits, which refers to the highest peaks on each of the seven continents as a group. The dormant volcano is located in northern Tanzania, close to the

Former England rugby star, Andy Blyth, a center, has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro despite 11 years of worrying he might be paralyzed for life. Blyth took part in the AXAWealth Climb alongside Rugby Players' Association chairman David Barnes and former England hooker Mark Regan to raise £100,000 for injured players and wounded warriors. 'What Andy has done is inspiring and nothing short of miraculous,' said Damian Hopley, RPA chief executive. Blyth began his career as a hard-hitting centre for Newcastle before going on to Northampton and then Sale, each move aimed at improving his chances of earning a Test cap to go along with his six England A appearances. On March 12, 2000, those dreams were dashed. Blyth tackled Thierry Lacroix less than a minute into a game against Saracens before getting wiped out by the opposition pack as he sought to battle for the ball. It's a scenario that occurs frequently throughout each game, but Blyth's third disc in his back was displaced on this occasion. It nicked his spinal cord as it moved. Anything below Blyth's shoulders was out of his control. He was a tetraplegic at the time. Blyth had come within a hair's breadth of severing his spinal chord. 'It's time to turn off the lights.' Blyth once quipped, "That's a Christopher Reeve job." Blyth made his first movements 12 weeks later. He was hesitantly taking several steps with crutches a year later. Blyth's balance is still shaky, but he's up for the challenge of climbing Kilimanjaro. He tripped a lot on the way up, but he made it to the top despite all odds. Help for Heroes, the Rugby Football Union's Injured Players Foundation, and the RPA Benevolent Fund are all beneficiaries of the AXA Wealth Climb.

Lino Lacedelli, who was one of the first two climbers to reach the summit of K2, the world's second-highest peak and among the most perilous, passed away on November 20 at the house in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, where he had resided since the day he was born. He was 83 years old. According to Italian newspapers and broadcasters, his family stated that he passed away due to unclear circumstances following a heart procedure. Mr. Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni arrived at the peak on July 31, 1954, but neither of them would admit to being the first to reach the peak. In May, Mr. Compagnoni passed away at the age of 94. Reinhold Messner, a well-known Italian mountain climber, stated to the news agency ANSA that Mr. Lacedelli, who conquered a peak that many climbers consider to be more difficult than Everest, was one of the "greatest climbers" in the history of the sport. Surveyors from the 19th century gave the peak in the Karakoram range that is located on the boundary between Pakistan and China the name K2. This peak is located in the mountain range. Everest, which is located around 800 miles to the southeast, has a height of more than 29,000 feet. K2 is approximately 28,250 feet in height. Following Italy's experience with fascism and loss in World War II, the Italian team's triumph in the battle for K2 was lauded as a national victory. The accomplishment, according to Mr. Messner, who was the first person to summit Everest without the use of additional oxygen, led to "the psychological reconstruction of Italians." Cortina d'Ampezzo was the location where Lino Lacedelli was born on December 4th, 1925. When he was 14 years old, he evaded his father and followed a mountain guide and his customer as they climbed the

A new, independent path to Africa's highest peak was opened by a group of German mountaineers from the firm DAV Summit Club. In 2008, one of the company's top guides, Thomas Laemmle, conducted a route reconnaissance and looked at aerial photographs. Thomas Glacier Route was inaugurated at the end of October 2009 by him, eight guests, three local guides, and a national park official. The Credner glacier connects the west side of Kilimanjaro to the mountain's crater. There were only two access points to Kilimanjaro's crater: Barafu and Kibo Hut, following the closure of Route Western Breach Route in 2005. Thomas Laemmle, a German tour guide, made the smart business decision to create a third route. Thomas thoroughly researched aerial photographs and maps before taking a quick tour of the route. The DAV Summit Club thereafter started assembling a clientele. There were three Tanzanian guides, Thomas, and eight customers in the group. The head ecologist of the National Park Kilimanjaro, Ephraim Mvangomo, joined them at camp Barranco after they had traveled to the top of Meru to acclimate. On October 27, 2009, Thomas Laemmle conducted reconnaissance of the route's rocky wall and ridge leading to the Credner glacier with the help of a local guide named Dismas Marika. There, two pitons and a 25-meter rope were fastened. The next day, the entire party ascended to 4650-meter-high Lava Tower Camp. They are well-rested here and started climbing at 23:30 when the moon was full. It took seven hours to go reach the Credner Glacier's tongue. The glacier's path was difficult to follow since the dried ice was in the shape of calgaspor. The crew took a short break after climbing the glacier for two hours before moving on to journey to the Northern Icefields' ice massif. It was climbed by a