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From Publishers Weekly ---------------------- Taking a charming journey to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest ain, publisher Moushabeck and photographer Schulz document a week spent climbing a well-traveled route with two companions and numerous helpers. Though it's hardly perilous , the trek provides enough challenges for an engaging account: "The six-day climb starts from the cultivated lower slopes with dry blistering heat, through a lush, wet rainforest jungle, into heath and moorland zones, all the way up the desolate alpine landscape and the steep, exposed arctic ain summit area, where virtually no or animal life can survive." Schulz's stunning photos are complemented by Moushabeck's colorful description: "The bird that never seems to want to leave you alone-in any zone, and at any altitude-is the large, noisy, scavenging, tent-visiting, expert backpack-opening, white-necked or white-naped raven." The company is also entertainingly detailed: "From flip flops to sandals to sneakers with missing laces and boots with fist-size holes, the 'shoes of Kilimanjaro' rank among the ain's most amazing s." This celebration of nature and human connection makes a fun escape for armchair adventurers and experienced climbers. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) Review ------ "Blazing with photographs as radiant as the African sun, this superbly illustrated personal account of an odyssey to the ice-bound summit of the world's tallest free-standing ain is as vastly rewarding and enriching as the journey itself. You sense yourself hiking alongside the author, wheezing and ping every step of the way!" --Christopher P. Baker, author of Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba "If you've dreamed of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro but have never had the chance, Michel Moushabeck and Hiltrud Schulz will take you there. If you've already climbed the ain, they will take you back. But either way, they will inspire you to start packing your gear to set off for East Africa, a place they bring to life through vivid descriptions of the land and people and dozens of dramatic photographs. The climb is exhilarating, excruciating, and exhausting, but they come out singing, and you will too." --Larry Habegger, executive editor, Travelers' Tales "If you've dreamed of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro but have never had the chance, Michel Moushabeck and Hiltrud Schulz will take you there. If you've already climbed the ain, they will take you back. But either way, they will inspire you to start packing your gear to set off for East Africa, a place they bring to life through vivid descriptions of the land and people and dozens of dramatic photographs. The climb is exhilarating, excruciating, and exhausting, but they come out singing, and you will too." --. Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) See all Editorial Reviews ( /dp/product-description/1566567815/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&isInIframe=0 )