Can children climb Kilimanjaro?

The minimum age limit set by Kilimanjaro National Park for children trekking to Uhuru Peak on Mount Kilimanjaro is 10 years old.

From which age are you considered an adult when climbing Mount Kilimanjaro?

You are regarded a child if you have the age of 17 years and below. Either, Kilimanjaro restricts children climbing Kilimanjaro under the age of ten years old. Most tour operators recommend that children be from the age of 14 years and above. You will be allowed to climb Kilimanjaro if you are above 10 years old. Children below the age of 10 are ordinarily not allowed to climb past 3,100 Meters (10,170 ft.) unless they have obtained special permissions from the Kilimanjaro National Park Authorities. There are no upper age limits to be allowed to climb Kilimanjaro.

The youngest person on record to have climbed Kilimanjaro was 7 Years Old and the oldest was 89, anyone under the age of 10 will not be allowed to climb to the summit Kilimanjaro. The highest you can go as a child on Kilimanjaro is 3,100 Meters (10,170ft). This altitude is lower than most of the lowest camps on Kilimanjaro. This means that there is no point in bringing your child to Kilimanjaro if they are below 10 and you don’t have the necessary approvals from the Kilimanjaro Park Authorities.

Who is the youngest person to climb mount Kilimanjaro?

Coaltan Tanner, who was born on September 18th, 2012 from Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the US, reached the summit on 22 October 2018 at 11.40am when he was A six year old boy has become the youngest person ever to climb Kilimanjaro. Coaltan’s desire to reach the summit of Africa’s Highest Mountain back in January of this year. For those of you who don’t know, the legal minimum age for climbing Kilimanjaro is ten, so special permission has to be sought from the park authorities, KINAPA, before any such climb can take place. Coaltan found out about extreme mountain climbing from an explorer book that he got for Christmas last year and frequently asks us to read to him before bedtime. he wanted to know what other high mountains he could climb and thus started his infatuation with climbing Kilimanjaro.

It appears that Coaltan’s talent for trekking emerged at an early age, as this next extract makes clear: Coaltan will to climb up mountains until we accidentally took him on an 8 mile, very steep hike up the Sandia Mountains to see an old plane crash site last summer. Though there have been younger children who have stood at the summit of Kilimanjaro, they have been carried at least part of the way by guides/porters rather than making their way up the mountain under their own steam. Keats Boyd, from Los Angeles, climbed to the top aged seven on 2018, Keats Boyd had become pretty much untraceable and so without knowing his exact birth date we could never ascertain who, exactly, was the youngest of them all.

Cash Callahan, also aged seven, managed the same feat. Record holder just six years, one month and a few days when he made it to Uhuru Peak. The seven year old boy from Hyderabad became one of the youngest to have reached the highest mountain peak of Africa Mt Kilimanjaro on March 6 after drawing inspiration from his cousins’ trekking experiences. Virat Chandra also is among of the youngest persons to climb the mountain Kilimanjaro. After having a discussion with his parents regarding the same, his parents approached a coach named Bharath. The seven year old completed all the rigorous tasks including running, rock climbing and so on.

Other youngsters who have summited Kilimanjaro include:

Montannah Kenney who was the seven years old. She is currently the youngest female to climb Kilimanjaro. She summited in March 2018. Montannah broke Roxy Getter’s record, when she was eight years. Zain Akrim (aged 9 years) summited on the 8th of August, 2015. He is another youngest British person to climb Kilimanjaro. Sam Irving (aged 10 years) of Clay gate in Surrey summited in 2015. As part of his summit climb, he helped raise £25,000 for the Haller Foundation, which boosts the economies of poor, smallholder farmers who live on inhospitable land.

Last spring, Joel Redmond got an idea while watching a segment on “Good Morning America” about a California girl, Roxy Getter, age eight two years older than he was who had become the youngest girl at the time to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the among of the highest mountain in world. Redmond, then 6, decided that he wanted to make that climb, too, with a team of guides and assistants, the Redmond family, which owns and operate Clear Lake mortgage company Legend Home Lending, took the eight-day journey together up the mountain. The Redmond’s were not aiming to set any records. But they believe that Joel set a record on Jan. 3 as the youngest person to climb to the 19,341-foot summit of the mountain and that his sister became the second youngest female to complete the climb.

Attempts to reach officials with the Guinness Book of World Records regarding Joel’s climb and other information about Kilimanjaro records were unsuccessful as of press time. Eight year old Roxy Getter is now the youngest female to summit Mount Kilimanjaro. Getter climbed the mountain alongside her 10-year-old brother and her parents. The family prepared by climbing up and down stairs at local parking garages, stadiums and bridges. Keats Boyd previously became the youngest person to ever summit Mount Kilimanjaro when he was seven years old. Montannah Kenney recently became the youngest girl to scale Mount Kilimanjaro.

The seven year old resident of Austin, Texas, said she wanted to climb the volcano in Tanzania. Montannah and her mom, Hollie Kenney, completed the climb in 6 1/2 days from base to peak after training for several months. The Kenneys did the climb in part to fundraise for EMDR therapy, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, for trauma survivors. In March, seven year old Montannah Kenney made history as the youngest girl ever to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. The reason why she wanted to scale the 19,341-foot volcano in Tanzania To be closer to her father, who died in 2013, Kenney later learned the weather conditions they encountered were especially harsh, according to Weather.com. "When I called the Tanzania office later to talk to them, they said to me, 'We heard you had the worst weather in 10 years," Kenney said.

And no one ever alluded to that when we were up there. We just figured it was normal and it was something we had to deal with, but the weather was terrible." Kenney started planning the trip with her adult sister a few years ago, but Montannah quickly volunteered when her aunt backed out. Although the mother and daughter are both experienced triathletes, Kenney approached the new plan with extra caution, both before and during the climb. She talked to a doctor for tips on how Montannah could scale the mountain carefully, and was prepared to head back down if Montannah experienced any altitude sickness or other issues.