Kilimanjaro Porters
Climbing Kilimanjaro is an outstanding achievement that is impossible without the help of your porters and guides.
Kilimanjaro Porters
As you limp up the mountain, willing your legs not to give out on you, your porters rush by, laden with heavy packages, so they can get everything set up for you by the time you roll into camp.
The life of a porter isn’t easy, and virtually every trekker that goes up Kilimanjaro returns with a healthy sense of respect and even awe for this grueling job. The best way to show appreciation for these hard-working people is to climb with a company that treats them right. Kilimanjaro Porters and Guides have a significant role in making your Kilimanjaro summit successful.
The porters range from 18 years of age to 40 years of age. Kilimanjaro Porters are the best and hardest working mountain climbing crew and are only sometimes employed permanently. Kilimanjaro tour operators have the best team of porters that help a lot of travelers with climbing. However, most of the porters freelance.
The porters walk to the national park gate daily, where many budget operators pick them up the porters. The average ratio of porters per climber is 2-3 porters. The general rules of Kilimanjaro Porters is the more significant number of trekkers, the less porter per person required.
If you take the Marangu route, you will not require more porters, and you can get away with about two per trekker and less if the group is significant because the Marangu Route has huts and no tents.
Kilimanjaro How Many Kilimanjaro Porters Do You Need?
There are often two to three porters for every climber. The usual rule for Kilimanjaro porters is that the fewer porters needed per trekker, the greater the number of trekkers. Because the Marangu Route uses huts rather than tents, you will only need so many porters and can get away with using two or fewer per trekker if the company is significant.
Two to three porters are typical on other routes where tents are required because they must climb Mount Kilimanjaro carrying all of the tent’s supplies.
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