Mountain Bike Mount Kilimanjaro
If you love mountains and mountain biking you need to consider our kilimanjaro bike trip.
Mountain bike mount kilimanjaro. Biking up kilimanjaro is a new concept and to date only few mountain bikers have ever managed to successfully bike up kilimanjaro on mountain bikes. Documentary film of the 2016 attempt to climb and ride the two highest mountains in africa back to back on mountain bikes mount kilimanjaro and mount kenya. Due to mount kilimanjaro s great height the mountain creates its own weather. We are about to downhill the highest mountain in africa.
Onbike s mountain bike kilimanjaro offers the rare opportunity to ride your bike from the roof of africa into it s plains and amongst it s wildlife. It takes us through solitary rainforests fertile fields of crop and through wild dry acacia rich savannah which is the home of the masai. Rebecca rusch and patrick sweeney have recently mountain biked to the summit of mount kilimanjaro africa s highest peak 19 341 feet. Mountain bike adventure around mt.
The feat of mountain biking up kilimanjaro began in 1985 when dick and nick crane became the first recorded people to reach the summit of kili with bikes. At the summit uhuru point the night time temperatures can range between 20 and 20 degrees fahrenheit 7 to 29 degrees celsius. Mount kilimanjaro bike tour. You can mountain bike on mount kilimanjaro.
Mount kilimanjaro in tanzania is africa s highest point the world s highest free standing mountain and one of the most sought after summits on the planet. A massive volcano soaring to 5 895 meters elevation its summit conjures snow and glaciers high above east africa s sunny equatorial plains. Crank up the volume of that sneaky johnny clegg track on your playlist to set the scene for this one. Bike trek is our new product of trekking the kilimanjaro mountain kilema route is the only route that bike trek to kilimanjaro mountain can reach to the top of the mount kilimanjaro by mountain bike.
Cycling on mount kilimanjaro highlights. The tracks around the cloud shrouded snow capped roof of africa are mainly. Signature safari bike trek is our new product of trekking the kilimanjaro mountain kilema route is the only route that bike trek to kilimanjaro mountain can reach to the top of the mount kilimanjaro by mountain bike. Of these only a small number made it to the summit unassisted by cycling pushing or even carrying their bikes during some stages without any assistance from our porters or guides before starting a mighty roller coaster ride of 3 000m downhill.
They were the first to attempt this. With our experienced guides the whole trip to summit mt kilimanjaro 5895m took 5 days with proper acclimatization. They carried them up themselves and later wrote a book about their experience called.