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Kilimanjaro Adventure | 
 enlarge | Author: Hal Streckert
Publisher: Mission Press (Santa Fe, CA)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 1832630
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 237
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0966812352
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.5220967826
EAN: 9780966812350
ASIN: 0966812352
Publication Date: March 1999
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Product Description
This book is a fascinating personal account of climbing the highest mountain on the African continent as a family. The struggle and decision process to start organizing a trip to the depths of Africa are revealed. Meeting up with other climbers and trekking the lower flanks of the mountain is detailed. The difficulty of reaching the crater rim and continuing to the summit in the thin atmosphere is vividly described. At different phases of the climb, the thoughts and feelings of the various family members are exposed. After the strenuous climb, there is time to relax and enjoy the untamed nature on a safari to one of the big game parks. A wealth of information on the climbing routes, equipment, contacts, climate, history is contained in the appendixes. All the information required to organize your own expedition step by step is provided in a concise and easy to use format.
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 Just an ordinary travelogue, not worth a buy January 23, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't recommend this book, especially if you're not planning to use the Marangu Route. There's nothing gripping about it. You can find a lot more interesting, a lot more informative and updated travelogues on the internet and you can read them for free. Also, this book is badly written and edited. Do we have to be told that the kind of food served in a restaurant named "Carnivores" is meat? Do we have to know that the author and his wife became members of the mile-club on their flight to Africa? I wonder what their son thought upon reading it. Not worth buying.
Kilimanjaro Adventure-Needs editing December 13, 2002
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Let me preface my comments by saying that I am not a mountaineer, but am planning a Kili climb for next year. But in my opinion, from reading Mr. Streckert's book, I got no sense of what it is like to climb the mountain. Through his prose, he attempted to describe the scenery and effort, but his flowery words just sounded silly to me, and more than a little arrogant. It was as if only he and his family, among all the people and groups they encountered, were capable of climbing Kili. He also makes it sound as if conditioning, strength training, and a will to climb will ensure success. Those certainly play a very significant part, especially the will, but given my understanding of AMS, it is the luck of the draw (or your genes) whether or not you are stricken. The most "in-shape" person can come down with AMS. It is a little scary how Mr. Streckert portrays, or seemingly ignores this fact, and how, while on the mountain, he encouraged people that sounded more than a little ill, to keep going. It seems to me that he should have been more concerned for their health and safety. If he was, it did not come across in the book. A little humility in and editing of his writing would have made their family adventure (and a great one it was) worth reading about by the rest of us. As written, however, it was not worth it to me.
 Should be titled 'I'm so great' September 14, 2002
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was hoping to use this book to plan a trip to Africa to climb Kili but really there's not enough substance here. The author's constant reminder of all the feats he's accomplished and other people he's bettered (Whitney climb, Grand Canyon hike etc) is just plain annoying. Its an easy read and if that's what you're looking for, great. If you want some details for a trip keep looking.
 Inspiring book August 19, 2001
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I thought this book was great. It makes it sound so easy to go to Africa and climb Kilimanjaro. I climb in the Rockies and always wondered about going out of the country to climb. Now I think I'll go do it. I already started looking into it and now I'm even more inspired. This is the push I needed to get my b--- in gear.
 It's hard to get past the author's arrogance August 30, 2000
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Hal Streckert thinks alot of himself, and he keeps reminding us of how great he is every chance he gets. As I am going to Kilimanjaro myself in 4 weeks, I basically enjoyed the tale of this family's trek up the mountain but I just couldn't keep from rolling my eyes and cringing at the tone of the author and his trite writing style. I'd give examples from his book to show you what I mean but I just can't be bothered to pick it back up since I finished it. If there were more books out there on this topic, I'd give him only 2 stars, but the fact is, there's unfortunately not alot to choose from. Try "Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro" by Stephen Carmichael which is interesting, factual and without the Hal-ster's self aggrandizing tone.
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