- Ludwig Purtscheller
Ludwig Purtscheller (October 6 1849 in Innsbruck - March 3 1900 in Bern, Switzerland) was an Austrian mountaineer and teacher. In the late 19th century he was known as the best mountaineer in the alps, where he had climbed over 1700 mountains. He is best know for his first ascent of Kilimanjaro in 1889 together with the German mountaineer Hans Meyer. He died when trying to climb the mountain Dru in the French Alps near Mont Blanc.
- Johannes Rebmann
Johannes Rebmann was a German missionary and explorer credited with feats including being the first European, along with his accomplice Johann Ludwig Krapf, to enter Africa from the Indian Ocean coast. In addition, they are also credited with being the first Europeans to find Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya. Their work there is also thought to have had effects on future African expeditions by Europeans, including the exploits of Sir Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, …
- Johann Ludwig Krapf
Johann Ludwig Krapf was a German missionary in East Africa, as well as an explorer, linguist, and traveler. Krapf played an important role in exploring East Africa with Johannes Rebmann. They were the first Europeans to see Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro. Krapf also played a key role in exploring the East African coastline.
- Augustine Mrema
Augustine Lyatonga Mrema (born 1945) is a Tanzanian politician and chairman of the Tanzania Labour Party (TLP) party. Mrema is a member of the chaga tribe from Kiraracha Village in Kilimanjaro. He is the second born in a family of five children.
- Bill Tilman
Major Harold William "Bill" Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC and Bar (14 February 1898-1977) was an English mountaineer and explorer, famous for his Himalayan climbs and sailing voyages.
- Alan Gill
Alan Gill was the guitarist/songwriter for the synth pop band Dalek I Love You. He also played guitar in The Teardrop Explodes and co-wrote their top ten hit "Reward". During this period, Gill introduced lead singer Julian Cope to LSD. He performed on their 1980 album "Kilimanjaro" before leaving the band to concentrate on Dalek I Love You. After the band released their final album, Gill turned to film scoring, …
- Simon Thomas
Simon Thomas (born January 26, 1973 in Cromer, Norfolk) is a British television presenter. Thomas started life in Norfolk and then moved to Surrey, where he went to Aberdour School in Tadworth, and St. John's School, Leatherhead. Following his school career, he went to Birmingham University, where he graduated with a degree in History. Thomas began presenting the children's programme "Blue Peter" on 8 January 1999, after his fourth audition, replacing Richard Bacon.
- Jake Meyer
Jake Meyer At the age of 14, Jake Meyer set himself the challenge of becoming the youngest person to climb the 7 Summits; the highest mountain on each continent. On the 4th June 2005 at the age of 21, he stood on the summit of Mt Everest, thus becoming the youngest Briton to climb Everest, as well as the youngest man in the world to complete the 7 Summits.
- Yasuko Namba
Yasuko Namba (February 2 1949-May 10 1996) was famous in her native Japan for becoming only the second Japanese woman (after Junko Tabei) to summit all of the Seven Summits including Everest. Namba worked as a businesswoman for Federal Express in Japan, but her hobby of mountaineering took her all over the world. She first summitted Kilimanjaro on New Year's Day in 1982, and summitted Aconcagua exactly two years later. She reached the summit of Denali on 1 July 1985, …
- Marek Kamiński
Marek Kamiński is a Polish traveller. In 1995 he was the first person to reach both poles: the North Pole on 23 may 1995 and the South Pole on 27 December 1995. Earlier, preparing for this feat he walked to Spitsbergen (400 km) and Greenland’s glaciers (600 km). Kamiński is member of The Explorers Club in New York. Kamiński took part in numerous expeditions: *Mexico, Guatemala - 1985/1987 *crossing of Spitsbergen on skies - 1990, …
- Davo Karničar
Davo Karničar is a Slovenian climber and an extreme skier. As an active Alpine skier, he was a member of the National Alpine Ski Team between 1975 and 1982. An Alpine climber since 1980, he has so far recorded over 1.400 Alpine climbs and ski descents. He was the first man who skied from all 7 continent highest peaks. He was also the first man who skied down from the Mount Everest on October 7, 2000.
- Tony Markellis
Tony Markellis is a bassist and record producer from Helena, Montana, now residing in Saratoga Springs, New York. His career spans over thirty-five years, playing blues, folk, jazz, rock and country music with such diverse artists as Trey Anastasio, Paul Butterfield, Johnny Shines, David Bromberg, David Amram, The Unknown Blues Band featuring Big Joe Burrell, Paul Siebel, Rosalie Sorrels, Eric Von Schmidt, Ellen McIlwaine, Esther Satterfield, Mary McCaslin, Michael Jerling, …
- Keizo Miura
Keizo Miura was a Japanese skiing legend. He was a skiing teacher and photographer of mountain landscapes. He was notable for his fitness and outdoor-sport undertakings at advanced age; he was the oldest person to climb the Kilimanjaro, at age 77 and descended a Gletscher of the Mont Blanc at age 99 together with his oldest son Yuichiro and grandson Yuta. Yuichiro Miura was also the oldest person to climb Mount Everest and the Himalayas, at age 70.
- Kippie Moeketsi
Kippie "‘Morolong’" Moeketsi was a legendary South African saxophonist and jazz musician. Born into a musical Johannesburg family, Moeketsi was the youngest of four brothers, each of whom played an instrument. Growing up in George Goch township was unpleasant for him and he was often truant. At 20 he started playing clarinet, but would soon move on to the saxophone.
- Bruce Kinloch
Bruce Kinloch was born in India and educated in England. He joined the Gurkha Rifles after leaving Sandhurst in 1939, fought with them in Burma and on the Northwest Frontier, and won the Military Cross for his part in Battle of Sittang River Bridge in 1942. At the age of twenty-five, he commanded a battalion. In 1947, he joined the Colonial Administrative Service. He was Chief Game Warden in Uganda for ten years; in 1960 he became Chief Game Warden of Tanganyika, …
- Angela Reid
Angela Reid is the Deputy Leader for the Green Party of British Columbia. Angela was also elected to the Green Party of Canada Federal Council in 2006, and is the CEO of the Kelowna Federal Green Party. She has run for the Green Party in four elections, two provincial and two federal. Angela is also a co-founder of the Okanagan Greens.
- Rindi
Rindi of the Chagga was a major chieftain ruling in the Kilimanjaro region in 1860, making Moshi an important base for ivory trading with Zanzibar and Dar-Es-Salaam. He signed a Treaty with the Germans in 1885 and Moshi became their headquarters and most important economic and political centre of that time.
- Robert Haga
Robert Haga, Chief of Staff to Commissioner Chong. He was Vice President of Strategic Planning and USAC Operations at the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) in Washington D.C. Mr. Haga joined USAC in 1998 as its third employee, and during his seven years with USAC, he was responsible for a broad range of issues, including the high cost and low income support mechanisms, corporate finance, information technology, and audits.
- Dave Marlborough
Social networking is nothing more than a single tooth on one of many cogs which drive global social awareness.
- Dr Heidi A Kilimanjaro MD
- John Kilimanjaro
Just trying to find my way around the Mid West. help a brotha out!
- C. Vickie Kilimanjaro
- Culey V Kilimanjaro
- Kilimanjaro
I AM VERY STREIGHT FORWARD PERSON ALSO I REACT ACCORDINGLYTO WAT I SEE,READ OR HEAR, I ALSO USED TO TALK A LOT. I AM A VERY GOOD LISTENER AND A VERY GOOD CARRING PERSONAL.I LIKE VERY MUCH IN SPORTS MOSTLY FOOTBALL AND VOLLYBALL. I HAVE A LOVLY THREE KIDS ALL ARE BOYSW AND LOVLY WIFE.
- Kilimanjaro
mabait ako, wag lang gagaguhin kasi tinotopak din ako. kung sosyal ka pwede akong makipag-sosyalan, kung jologs ka, jologs din ako... pwede akong pa-red wine-red wine pero nakikipag-inuman din ako sa kalye. pwede ako sa exclusive intimate relationship, pwede mo rin akong hilahin sa orgy. eb or seb, ok lang din. in short, i can be as exciting as you want me to be... hehe Feel free to add me as your friend - kilimanjaro_seven@yahoo.com.
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- Saumu
im very interested to chart with those who are interested with me especially to share such good things in the life and most of it is how life is going on and how to succeed to have a good life in this world. so interested pls.
- Marco
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- Richardson
- Steve Knabe
Steve Knabe Managing Partner Steve Knabe , Managing Partner of Kilimanjaro Consulting, is responsible for working with client companies to develop and implement new strategies, business processes and organizational structures to improve company performance. Prior to joining Kilimanjaro, Steve led the Manufacturing Practice of Deloitte & Touche (a multi-billion dollar international management consulting and audit firm) in central Europe.
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- Kit Deslauriers
Kit DesLauriers (b 1969) is a champion American skier. DesLauriers graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in environmental political science. She is a two-time women's world freeskiing champion, winning back-to-back titles in 2004 and 2005 after only two years of competition. In August 2005, she won the women's division of the Rendezvous Hill Climb to the top of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
- Romi Garduce
Romeo "Romi" Garduce (born 1969 in Balanga, Bataan), who sometimes goes by the nickname "Garduce", is a Filipino mountain climber and works as an IT Professional in Procter and Gamble Philippines. He began climbing "'"'LADDERS for a cause in 1991 as a member of the University of the Philippines Mountaineers. After reaching the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in 2002, Garduce became the first Filipino to climb one of the Seven Summits.
- Marcus Gilbert
Marcus Gilbert is an actor, best known for his roles in Jilly Cooper's "Riders" and "Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness". Since 1984 he has appeared in films, some of which are, "A Hazard of Hearts" (1987), "A Ghost in Monte Carlo" (1990), "Biggles" (1986), "Rambo III" (1988) and "Legacy" (1990), and on television and in commercials.
- Harry Johnston
Sir Henry (Harry) Hamilton Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. (12 June 1858 - 31 August 1927), was a British explorer, botanist and colonial administrator, one of the key players in the "Scramble for Africa" that occurred at the end of the 19th century.
- Patrick Morrow
Patrick Allan Morrow, CM, (born October 18, 1952 in Invermere, British Columbia) is a Canadian photographer and mountain climber who was first person in the world to have climbed the highest peaks of all seven continents: Mount McKinley in North America [1977], Aconcagua in South America [1981], Mount Everest in Asia [1982], Elbrus in Europe [1983], Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa [1983], Vinson Massif in Antarctica [1985], and Puncak Jaya in Oceania [1986].
- Joanne Salley
Joanne Salley (born 1977 in Dungannon) is a former Miss Northern Ireland winner, presently a television presenter. Salley won the Miss Northern Ireland title in 1998, and came runner-up in the Miss United Kingdom pageant. Salley, who trained in ballet for fifteen years, is past-pupil of the Royal School Dungannon and a graduate of Cambridge University. She once co-hosted The Big Breakfast and has been in some television advertisements, including one for the Peugeot 106.
- Mangi Meli
Mangi (Chief) Meli was a leader of the Chaga in the 1890s. He was hanged by the German colonialists in early 20th century. Meli was one of the heroes of the former Tanganyika colony, and stood firm in the fight against colonial encroachment around the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Meli was hanged by German colonial soldiers in the open while his people watched, after which the German colonial administration ordered his decapitation.
- Charlotte Green
Charlotte "Sherry" Green (born July 1938 in Tampa, Florida, United States) is an American fencer. Green learned to fence at the Oregon Fencing Alliance in Portland, Oregon. Her teachers there included Adam Skarbonkovic, Charles Randall, and Ed Korfanty. She was a member of the 2005 US National Veterans fencing team and came in fifth at the 2005 World Championships. In 2006, she was the top-ranked female sabre fencer in the Veterans 60+ category.