by Tyler Morse, New York, NY

The top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania was my goal, so in May ’02 I joined 11 others in Amsterdam and we flew to Nairobi, where we boarded a bus and rode for seven hours through southern Kenya and then northern Tanzania to the Marangu Hotel in Moshi. This was the embarkation site for our climb up the mountain.

The Marangu Hotel (P.O. Box 40, Moshi, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania, East Africa; phone 255-27-275-6594 or 255-27-275-6361, fax 255-27-275-...