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I came across this DVD a couple months before leaving for Kilimanjaro and enjoyed it mighty. If you are going to climb the mountain via the Western Breach route, select is a no-brainer.

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It, along with a Nova documentary that appeared about the same time, seems to have contributed to an explosion of thousands of Americans climbing Kilimanjaro in the last 3 years. Said one porter-aid worker I met in in Moshi, “Americans stale to be rare in Tanzania, but in the last 2-3 years, they are suddenly accepted …”. Everyone I met seemed to have viewed or been prompted to go by these two videos.

The film is definately IMAX-ie; radiant photography, nice swelling music, numerous scenes of herds of animals fleeing in fright along the plains of Africa as the camera swoops down from an airplane overhead. You bag the belief.

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The narrator (mountain guide Jacob Kyungai) intones that climbers of Kilimanjaro are “ordinary people people, mostly”, then goes on to introduce a Gilligan’s Island cast of climbers, picked to consider (or lift) the folk who might go to the science museum IMAX theater on a Saturday afternoon — as compared to those who actually climb Kili.

You have The Professor (Roger Bilham, an expert volcanologist), Ginger/Mary-Ann (Heidi Albertsen, identified on the DVD only as “Trekker: Denmark”, but in reality a Modern York super-model you have probably seen more often on the shroud of women’s magazines at your grocery store check-out line), a couple of precocious 12-going-on-25 year venerable kids (self-possessed and great, every Yuppie parent’s dream-child), a writer (Audrey Salkeld), and Rick Thomson, who barely made it out of the editing room, but is the father of the 12 year former girl (and was in a dreadful car accident shortly before the climb and had a pin in his hip, etc.)

Basically, the film shows a sort of idealized climb. This is not a movie about man against nature, or pushing the limits of human endurance. It’s about a blooming, diverse mountain and some “ordinary” (*cough*) people who went to the top.

Bottom line: if you are going to experience a Kilimanjaro climb, it’s hard to beat tagging along with an expert volcanologist and a super-model.

The DVD contains a “Making of” feature that is of even more interest to prospective climbers than the main film. Behind-the-scenes shots of the logistics and events provides context to the apparent effortless serenity of the main feature.

The scrape with the film is this: having climbed Kilimanjaro (via Lemosho - Shira -Western Breach route), the depiction of the Western Breach is disturbingly glossy. This jam is not recent to this film; it exists in the Nova documentary and virtually all text and sales-pitches advocating the Western Breach. Basically, the pitch is that the Western Breach route is “non-technical” and expedient for anyone in helpful physical condition who is qualified of hiking for 6-8 hours a day.

The reality is there are at least 4 spots where you will net yourself clinging to an ice-covered rock, searching for petite finger & toe-hold indentations as you skitter 20-30 feet sideways. Miss a finger or toe, have a balance spot, or rush more than one acquire, and you will drop 1000 feet to the rocks below. And aside from those 4 sections, a misstep or bolt on any of the rest of the breach also means falling hundreds of feet. And preserve in mind you are likely wearing a 20+ pound pack with several pounds of water. Basically, anything is “non-technical” if you don’t employ safety equipment.

The Western Breach is precarious and hazardous. In the film, they explain the cast clambering over refrigerator-sized, step-like blocks of stone. This amounts to at most 15% of the climb. The rest is not really shown, probably because it is too precarious to procure footage of. A parent allowing a 13-year faded on this route is inconceivable to me, unless ropes and attend equipment were worn to befriend.

While clinging to ice-covered rocks and seeing nothing but air beneath my feet, my initial reaction was inflame at the public-relations puff-job in this movie and other sources. This was posthaste subsumed by the desire to simply quit alive, repeated a couple dozen times that day.

While this movie might lead people in marvelous shape, broken-down to jogging around the park or hiking the local hills, into thinking it’s no colossal deal to climb Kilimanjaro via WB (”hey, a couple 13 year olds did it”), the reality is inexplicably different than the PR. You have been warned.

By the diagram, if you read the companion book to this film, there is a notice at the kill that mentions that a few months after filming, the cast and crew was reassembled and climbed Kilimanjaro AGAIN (a 2nd time) to accumulate more shots.

Having seen this film after climbing Kili I found it brought attend vast memories and I would recommend it for those having climbed and planning to climb. Potential climbers should not seek information from trekking tips but will accumulate a sense of the mountain. I judge that the more necessary reviews of this film are unfair. The implication that anyone could summit given 6 weeks and a staff of 150 is lawful, but planned properly most normal people can as well. It should also be renowned that film maker -David Breashears- has reached the summit of Everest at least 4 times so how ‘clean’ the climbers survey needs to be kept in context. Kili is not a technical climb, in fact it’s a relatively simple hike, whose challenge stems from each individuals reaction to the altitude. That accessibility makes Kili everyman’s mountain. From age 12 to 72, if you have the bug to summit and impressive peak, are reasonably fit, and courageous enough fade to the other side of the world, then Kili is the perfect adventure for you and this film should only attend to whet your appetite.
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