Travel Insurance May Not Cover High-Altitude Treks to Kilimanjaro, Everest
TRAVELMARKETREPORT | June 05, 2018
You’ve seen the pictures. A tour group of average, everyday travelers summiting Mount Kilimanjaro, recording it on Instagram and encouraging their friends that they can do it, too. They very likely can. Africa’s highest peak, Kilimanjaro is known as a “walk-up” mountain, because the climb doesn’t require technical equipment typically used on steeper and higher peaks. As a result, 50 percent of those trekkers joining qualified tour groups and taking 6-8 days to summit, will likely capture those Instagram photos at Kilimanjaro’s 5,895-meter tall peak (approx. 19,300 feet above sea level).