About Team Kilimanjaro

 

Team Kilimanjaro currently comprises 17 administrative staff and 707 mountain staff, consisting of 82 guides and assistant guides, 64 cooks and 561 porters. Our mountain staff are divided into 16 close-knit teams each led by a chief guide who reports daily from the mountain, directly to our Expedition Coordinator. Consistently excellent performance is demanded by the British management who are available night and day to deal with contingencies and to oversee the planning and preparation of all expeditions.

 

TK’s staffing procedures are entirely unique. Allocation of work to our guides, cooks and porters is strictly on the basis of merit, continued performance and positive feedback from climbers. We have weekly training assessments for those not on the mountain, at which team leaders will score all candidates for effort and ability. Only the most dedicated and hardworking will be assigned to the next expedition. In this way with all members of Team Kilimanjaro on permanent assessment we aim to guarantee against complacency and waning performance and to create a healthy and competitive ethos in which hard work, reliability and punctuality are rewarded.

 

 

 

John Rees-Evans, Team Kilimanjaro

 

John served with two British Army units before beginning life as an expeditioneer. He has led various expeditions throughout the world. Complementary to his role with TK he serves as a mountain safety consultant to Kilimanjaro National Park and was responsible for determining the cause of the tragic accident of 4th January 2006 which resulted in the Western Breach assault route being closed.

 

He holds the verified British speed record for Kilimanjaro, has created a completely new route on the north side of Kilimanjaro that ascends the Credner Glacier and traverses the Crater, and has advised the National Parks authorities on environmental impact reduction.

 

John is currently in training to attempt the world’s first continuous 5,000 metre vertical speed ascent to Kilimanjaro’s summit.

 

 

 

 

 

Rebecca Rees-Evans, Team Kilimanjaro

 

Rebecca holds the woman’s world record as the fastest woman to climb Kilimanjaro and is also the first woman to have taken the unprecedented risk of speed climbing the mountain, and without full prior acclimatisation. She ascended in 13 hours and 16 minutes.

 

Rebecca’s professional background is in town management. She brings first rate operational procedures to the team.

 

Rebecca is also at the forefront of TK’s groundbreaking role in being the only expedition organisers to promote equal opportunities to Tanzanian women. TK currently has a staff of around 20 women who serve on the mountain alongside their male counterparts.

 

A mother of four, she is currently preparing for a new faster women’s world record.

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Squire, Senior Expedition Coordinator, Team Kilimanjaro

 

An ex-British Army soldier, David’s service has seen him on active duty in the Falklands; leading various mountaineering and adventurous expeditions worldwide, including to Canada, Kenya, the German and Austrian Alps and the Pyrenees.

 

Irrepressibly enthusiastic to infect others with his passion for the outdoors, David has a valuable and wide array of experience that includes regular voluntary service with young people, initiating them into the field of adventurous pursuits.

 

The sole involvement of just one tightly knit organisation from the moment of a climber’s first contact, through their climb, and down to safety again, means that Team Kilimanjaro are able to  respond effortlessly to a wide array of requests to customise hybrid routes specifically to meet a group’s demands. On David’s last expedition on Kilimanjaro he pioneered a rare hybrid variant that incorporated elements of Machame, The Western Breach, and Rongai, while spanning all three support levels, Lite, Advantage and Excel.

 

We are aware that there is considerable movement towards climbers wanting customised routes that few, if any, have ever repeated. David’s experience and zest to tackle such new and exciting challenges makes him ideally placed to assist with these projects.

 

David can be contacted directly at the email address at right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bianca Angelucci, Expedition Coordinator, Team Kilimanjaro

 

Bianca has spent nearly all of her life in Africa and would barely ever be indoors if she could help it. She is however an extremely diligent and swift organiser and thoroughly enjoys facilitating arrangements for others to do what she herself loves.

 

Bianca mans our Cape Town office and is a discerning frequenter of some of the world’s best beaches. Bianca also has a wealth of knowledge on Zanzibar and liaises daily with many well placed contacts on the island and so is well placed to advise on where best to spend your post-climb R&R.

 

Bianca can be contacted directly at the email address at right.

 

 

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A controlled risk taker Rebecca is committed to Team Kilimanjaro’s pioneering role and is currently training the first Tanzanian women to serve as female mountain guides and porters on Kilimanjaro.

 

With a professional background in town management Rebecca brings a valuable logistical command to TK’s operation and ensures that equipment and cuisine standards are under constant scrutiny.