record setting trail runners on kilimanjaro

The Skyrunners: Kilimanjaro’s Record-breaking Racers

  A 33-mile round-trip run up 15,177 feet, through jungle, beyond glaciers and past clouds to the highest point in Africa – then back down again. It takes the average trekker seven days. Kilian Jornet and Karl Egloff did it in around seven hours and set records for fastest ascent and descent on Kilimanjaro. Here’s…

climbing kilimanjaro with my grandfather

Our New Oldest Summiteer: ‘I’ve been back a week, and I’d go again!’

John with his son and grandsons at the start of the trek   John Thelen is an 82-year-old Southern California native who likes golfing and relaxing with his family. It just so happens he can also summit Africa’s tallest mountain with no problem. “I didn’t seem to have trouble going up!” John told us when…

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