SUCCESS RATIOS

Jambo! Travels' Numbers

While numbers don't tell the whole story, they do help to give a benchmark:

Overall, our clients have had great success on the mountain: More than 91% have made it to Gillman's Point (18,650'-- the recognized top of the mountain and the point where climbers crest the crater on the Marangu Trail) or higher, nearly 80% have reached Stella Point (19,000'--the point where climbers crest the crater on the Machamé Trail) or higher and nearly 70% have summited (19,340').

On average, nearly 95% of our male clients make it to the 18,650' level or higher and about 85% of our female clients make it to this level or higher.

Please note that these numbers take into account all of the trails that we use and any number of days (from 5 to 10). As more days are used for a climb on any given trail, the success ratios increase.

General Mountain Numbers

The overall mountain averages are about 50% to Gillman's Point and between 15% and 20% to the summit.

(As a side note, there has been success inflation in recent years on the mountain by people who have been with less scrupulous companies who have not made the summit but who have been registered by the park as having done so. This makes the actual numbers a little hard to know for the mountain as a whole).

CLIENT COMMENTS

Kilimanjaro is accessible to most physically-fit individuals. Indeed, we have had a wide variety of climbers on the mountain: Male and female, old and young, and novice and experienced.

Below is what a couple of our clients have said about their experiences with Jambo! Travels and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro:

"I have been traveling worldwide for 3 decades and have visited nearly 100 countries. However, I have never experienced such traveler's satisfaction and wonder as I did on Jambo! Travels' Kilimanjaro climb. It was the toughest and most rewarding physical challenge I have ever undertaken. A highlight of my first 50 years! Thank you."

"What a marvelous Trip! Everything went smoothly for me thanks to your excellent planning and superb detail in your Kili Prep Kit. It was the most incredible, difficult, rewarding, spectacular and demanding climb of my life, and I loved it. Thank you for my once-in-a-lifetime climb of Kilimanjaro."

REFERENCES

If you would like to have more references or a listing of names and numbers of individuals who have climbed with Jambo! Travels, please request our brochure to be sent to you.

It is our policy not to give out names and numbers of our clients on the web.