Kilimanjaro, at 19,340 feet (5,895 meters), is located approximately 250 miles south of the Equator just inside Tanzania's border with Kenya.

To summit Kilimanjaro, climbers must travel through several eco-zones (i.e. tropical rainforest, heather, desert, tundra and the glacier summit) over a period of 6-10 days. The highest point on Kilimanjaro is Uhuru Peak. Access to the summit is first to the crater rim and then a slow climb around the rim, whose cliffs rise 600 feet from the floor of the caldera.