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~ (Author), Susan Stoddard (Author), Rick Ridgeway (Author), Neville Shulman (Author), Robert M. Moore (Author) "This is the diary that I (Stephen) kept on Mount Kilimanjaro..." (more)
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"If you manage to stand on the roof of Africa, you will experience the kind of exhilaration which comes but rarely in an individual's lifetime. Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is an intriguing and stimulating book. It should be carried inside a backpack, knapsack, suitcase, or even a jacket pocket and referred to constantly and will save the climber, trekker, or even tourist no end of trouble." -- Neville Shulman in the foreword of the book --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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Have you ever considered climbing to the top of Africa? Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest point on the continent of Africa at 19,340 feet. But unlike most of the world's highest mountains, Mount Kilimanjaro can be climbed by the "average" person. If you want to learn more about cliimbing Mount Kilimanjaro, then this is the book for you! Carmichael and Stoddard describe the process of planning, preparation, and execution of their Mount Kilimanjaro adventure. Their expertise in the biological sciences gives credence to their recommendations for physical training and their precautions taken to prevent altitude sickness. The book is intended to be a step-by-step guide for training, making arrangements, gearing up, and preparing for potential medical problems, time differences and language barriers. They offer hiking guidelines, mental strategies, and even photography techniques. Their diary of the six-day climb gives a vivid description of how they made it up the mountain and back down.

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  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Medi-Ed Press; 2nd edition (September 23, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0936741163
  • ISBN-13: 978-0936741161
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #105,371 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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39 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars This book needs to be edited professionally, October 12, 2000
By K Bloomer (Alloa, Clacks, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
These authors climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, and they want to tell you about it. Although their husband-and-wife hearts are in roughly the right place, in their haste to print they have bypassed the editing stage. A professional editor would have checked their facts and deleted the more embarrassingly personal bits.

It's easy to list samples of their factual errors: Kilimanjaro was never in Kenya, Queen Victoria did not give it to Kaiser Wilhelm, who was not her cousin, nor is Mount Rosa the highest mountain in the Alps.

Less forgivable is the self-absorption: if Susan Stoddard's training really culminated in "the exceedingly boring goal of two hours' continuous stair-climbing", she must be unaware of the complete irrelevance of those muscle groups to the rough terrain and steep descent on this mountain.

Their trip to Zermatt was misguided. This Swiss ski resort is too low, too expensive and too far away to be a sensible way of pre-acclimatising for Kilimanjaro. Finally, once you have told your readers that you took five cameras, you cannot defend such muddy, amateur black-and-white photos.

While there are some good things in this book (for example its moon tables), what it really underlines is the need for somebody to write a well-researched, sensible and, above all, well-photographed book along similar lines.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Amateur effort - not recommended, February 18, 2006
By MJ (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
Wouldn't recommend it except to fill out your background reading of a fairly obsessive couple preparing to and then climbing. Much better books available such as "Kilimanjaro: A Guide to Climbing Africa's Highest Mountain, Includes City Guides to Arusha, Moshi, Marangu, Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam" by Henry Stedman.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Guide, December 22, 2003
By GEORGE R. FISHER (Boston MA United States) - See all my reviews
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It is frequently said of Mt. Kilimanjaro that it's not a "technical" climb; the implication being that it's not so difficult. But people have died trying and only half who make the attempt make the summit.

Nonetheless, the process is not complicated; arduous, but not complicated. All you need to start is some idea of what to expect and what to do. This book gives these things to you in a simple format, easily read, with instructions that are straightforward.

Kilimanjaro is far away for most of us, in a country we know virtually nothing about, on a continent that is always seen by the Westerner as dark and mysterious. Altitude sickness and its more serious friends, edema, must be confronted (20,000 feet is no joke) and the weather is variable to say the least ... starting in a rain forest and ending on a frozen snowfield four miles up.

Diseases must be prepared for, as must travel and physical conditioning and numerous other details. Carmichael does a good job of laying all this out and setting you on your way.

The rest is up to you. He does say that his exersize routine involved getting his heart rate to 150 beats per minute for two hours every day; this I find extreme even for me but it gives you a sense of what lies in store for you on the roof of Africa.

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3.0 out of 5 stars My Dream is : To SUMMIT the " Roof of Africa"
The book gave me some excellent hints, and it will be easy to pack, so I can refer to it....as I go. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Else Von Schopp

3.0 out of 5 stars Climbing Kilimanjaro
This books offers a good first hand account on preparing for a climb on Kilimanjaro. It puts on a personal touch that other books usually do not have. Read more
Published on February 27, 2007 by Sherwin Jew

4.0 out of 5 stars Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
The book provides an exceptional insight into climbing the mountain. Lots of information, practical tips and experiences. Written in an easy to read style. Read more
Published on January 19, 2006 by Michael J. Barrell

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth your time
I've often thought about writing a book about a trip as a way to deduct the expense from my taxes, but I've refrained for fear that the result would end up like this book. Read more
Published on June 6, 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars Dreary
I didn't think it was possible to make Kilimanjaro sound dull, but this author has tried very hard to. Read more
Published on September 13, 2003

1.0 out of 5 stars Just one big ego trip wrapped up as a guidebook.
Lack of practical info, badly edited, quite a few errors. . . just a big ego trip for the author. Very disappointing.
Published on August 28, 2003

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Although my "mountaineering" is limited to hikes in the Canadian Rockies, I found Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro a fascinating and informative how-to on summiting this high... Read more
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As a middle-aged "regular guy" this book got me into the best physical shape I have ever been in. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Monument to Mediocrity
Perhaps an even greater achievement than climbing some tourist trap is reaching the final page of this tedious, self-absorbed, mind-numbing journal. Read more
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