It’s 5,895 m (19,336 ft.) tall: more than three miles up
in the sky, almost the height at which jet planes cruise.
Curiously, the mountain is only 3 degrees south of the
Equator, yet ice-capped all year round. Thousands
long to Kili-it, only a few actually do. IT guy Amit
Hardi and his friends did it—the youngest of them was
33; the oldest 52. Three of them made it to the top
and two could not. Subhashish Bharuka listened to
their pulse-pounding story.
32 Travel Secrets March-April 2015