Kilimanjaro Trekking Routes
DELUXE KILIMANJARO
12 days
ITINERARY
8 days
TREKKING
5,895m
ALTITUDE
Dates
2025 & 2026
Trekking Kilimanjaro in Style
Our Deluxe Kilimanjaro Climb brings together the stunning Northern Circuit Route with a few welcome home comforts and extras, to give you an exclusive and memorable experience – letting you focus on getting to the summit in a bit of style!
The Challenge
Reach the Roof of Africa in 7 days...
The Northern Circuit is one of the quieter Kilimanjaro routes, including the rarely visited northern slopes of the mountain that overlooks Kenya. It approaches KIlimanjaro from the west and offers 360 degrees of beautiful scenery. With 8 days on the mountain it provides excellent acclimatisation and a high chance of success!
- What's Included-
- 12 day trip - 8 day trekking
- Bespoke thick air mattress!
- Private showers & toilets
- Deck chairs & foot bath!
- 3 course meals by our camp chef
- Afternoon tea & cakes each day
- UK mountain leader & UK doctor
- Maximum group size of 12
- Pre & post Challenge luxury lodge
- FREE Snowdonia training weekend
- Kili advisor - for all those questions
- Single Supplement tent
SPRING DEAL
£100 OFF ALL BOOKINGS WITH CODE SPRING25
+ FREE Fleece worth £35
+ FREE UK Training Event worth £139
+ £250 off when booking 2 places
Deal Ends 30th April 2025
The Experience
Life While Trekking
On an Action Challenge trip you’ll be part of a team which takes on a Kilimanjaro adventure together – and that’s what makes the experience so special. Getting to know others, supporting each other when the going gets tough on summit day, laughing together, and sharing those special moments & the new friendships that will stay with you for many years. Led by a UK Mountain Leader and supported by a Medic overseeing the group’s wellbeing – you’ll be in safe hands, and our expert local Kilimanjaro logistics team & guides will ensure it all runs like clockwork. These are ‘fully inclusive’ Kilimanjaro trips – leaving you to focus on your challenge, and to enjoy it!
An Action Challenge trip is much more than a holiday! It brings like-minded people together in fantastic landscapes, provides the best support & great hospitality, and enables the group to take on a tough & unforgettable challenge which forges new friendships, broaden horizons, and leaves you wanting more of life’s adventures!
The blueprint for Action Challenge trip is based on delivering a high quality enjoyable experience – and doing it all safely. An experienced UK Mountain Leader ensures that all aspects of the challenge run to plan – and one of our UK Medics with an expedition med kit is on-hand to look after the group’s wellbeing – enabling everyone to have the best chance of successfully competing their challenge.
We go to great lengths to ensure that we only use the best local organisations to supply the all-important ground logistics and the on-challenge support, catering, and hospitality teams – with experienced guides leading the way on the trails with their deep local knowledge and authentic style.
Like minded people with a similar sense of adventure – but often from very different backgrounds, and with a wide range of experience, ages, levels of fitness, and personal ambitions. Our trips are perfect for individuals, couples, and small groups of friends to join – and then to take on a unique challenge as part of a larger group which shapes & bonds as the adventure unfolds!
Whether its’s the hotels, restaurants & transfers before & after the main challenge – or the challenge accommodation & meals whilst out on the trails – our all inclusive packages mean that you will get a top quality experience at a great value price! Flights are generally included, but there’s a ‘land only’ option if you’d prefer to book your own – and single supplement accommodation upgrades are available.
The group comes together – takes on a tough challenge together – and then celebrates its achievements in style on the final night of the trip in a local restaurant or hotel, with medals, awards, and a maybe a bit of a party! Many of our participants make new special friends on our trips – and quite a few come back together for another challenge in the following years!
A successful Northern Route trek starts with good preparation. The better prepared you are the more confident you’ll be, and the more you’ll enjoy it! Our ‘Challenge App’ will have all the info & details of what to expect on your challenge – and how to prepare for it – and we have optional training walks, training weekends , and a place on one of our UK Ultra Challenge events to get out on the tails and test your fitness, kit, & equipment.
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Itinerary & Route
Please note that some details of the itinerary may change, you will be provided with a detailed itinerary once you are signed up to the challenge.
Departing London, we fly overnight before landing into Tanzania. Upon a morning arrival, we transfer to our hotel in Moshi, check in, before a welcome briefing & kit check. We have an evening meal together before an early night. The next morning we will drive from Moshi to the Londorossi Gate. This takes approximately two hours. Registration with the Kilimanjaro National Park authorities occurs at the gate and then you will be driven further up the mountain to the trailhead starting point. Our short first-day trek to MtiMkubwa Camp (2,785 meters) will then begin. Upon arrival, dinner will be served.
From here, we will embark on a light trek to Shira 1 Camp. The next morning, Trekking out from Shira 1 Camp, the morning is spent trekking up to Lava Tower and the iconic Shark’s Tooth rock formation, before we descend down
to Moir Hut at 4161m. The next day involves a moderately steep climb out of Moir Valley. From here the route follows a series of inclines and declines, skirting around the northern slopes of Kibo to Buffalo Camp (4,033 meters).
The next day starts with a climb up the Buffalo Ridge and down into Pofu Camp where lunch is usually served. The route then continues east around the northern slopes to the Rongai Third Cave at 3,936 meters. The following morning, we will continue with a steady incline up and over the Saddle which sits between the peaks of Kibo and Mawenzi Peak. We then continue trekking south-west, up to School Hut, otherwise known as the Outward Bound Camp. This sits at 4750m, and represents the highest point of the trek so far. This is also our last stop before the summit push.
Expect a midnight wake-up call for our final push to the summit. After ‘breakfast’, we take a long trek up the winding path to crater rim. The slope is steep over loose rocks with some boulders as you near Gilman’s Point (5,712m). Each pair of trekkers will be assigned a personal guide for this part of the trek. The trek from Gilman’s Point at the edge of the crater, to the summit is less demanding, and depending on your pace, you can reach it after a further 1½-2 hours. After a short time at the summit of Kilimanjaro, you have the option, depending on time, to descend to a nearby glacier. Then we hike down to Barafu Camp via a different route for a short two-hour rest, before descending to Millennium Camp at 3820m. Here you will tuck into dinner, and settle in to your tent for a glorious night of rest after a stunning achievement.
After breakfast and a heartfelt ceremony of appreciation and team bonding with your crew, it’s time to say goodbye. We continue the descent down to the Mweka Park Gate to receive your summit certificates. As the weather is drastically warmer, the terrain is wet, muddy and steep and we highly recommend Gaiters and trekking poles.
The next day we have a free morning, before heading to the airport for an overnight flight back to the UK.
Kilimanjaro Open Evenings
If you’d like to hear more about the Climb Kilimanjaro Challenge, we run regular open evenings. These are either online, or you can join our team in-person. The sessions last for an hour, with time for questions.
PLUS – exclusive on-the-night Kilimanjaro discounts! Join us on 28th Jan’ in Central London
PRICES & Fundraising OPTIONS
Check out the full list of our dates & prices and pick your departure. Sign up today from £495 deposit.
Our Brochure
The Challenge brochure details the full itinerary, inclusions, dates & prices – download for a full run down of the challenge details.
