CLIMBING SAFETY
Your safety is extremely serious at Mountaineers Expeditions and is an essential part of all of our systems from the training programs we run. It is important for you to give us your proper information before you trek and we will keep performing check-up on a daily basis during your climb.
Professional Mountain
Climbing Guides
MARANGU | MACHAME | SHIRA | RONGAI
Our guides and crews are specifically trained and instructed to ensure, where ever possible, that our guests can walk off the mountain, unaided, themselves. They are also trained extensively on monitoring systems and also management of AMS (acute mountain sickness), and more advanced forms of mountain sickness such as HAPE (High Altitude Pulmonary Edema) and HACE (High Altitude Cerebral Edema).
They are all Wilderness First Responders and Advanced First Aid Training and professionally certified CPR with resuscitation dummies to environment with specific flora and fauna training. They are best in identification and treatment of them.
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We do also use the right tools for the job
Oximeters
PAC, oxygen
Stretchers
Customised constant monitoring system
Communications & backup
Supplementary oxygen
Comprehensive first aid kits
Portable Altitude Chamber
helicopter evacuation in a event client need urgent evacuation
Altitude sickness assessment scorecards as a supplementary assessment tool
Customised evacuation stretchers
Ensuring safety on Kilimanjaro means trekking with the best guides who are experts in monitoring your health and in recognizing symptoms of altitude sickness in the early stages.
Meru & Beyonds Safaris’ Kilimanjaro and safari guides are licensed and medically trained. Their experience and knowledge of Kilimanjaro and the National Parks is unparalleled with hundreds of summit ascents and extensive training in evacuation procedures under their belts. They are leaders with impeccable judgment and natural ability to instill confidence. Meru and Beyond also offers the Flying Doctors services for extreme cases.
Dedicated exclusively to Meru and Beyond, our guides are committed to helping you successfully reach the summit of Africa’s Uhuru peak and have a memorable experience visiting the National Parks.
In addition to the high level of training our guides possess, Meru and Beyond is partnered with Amref’s Flying Doctors to provide medical evacuation services. Our guides are trained to call if the situation calls for it and in only 1 hour and 25 minutes, a helicopter is landed on the mountain for the evacuation.