Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa

by Hiltrud Schulz, Michel Moushabeck

Overview

A spectacular collection of images and words that offer a detailed glimpse into the unique beauty and rhythm of Africa's natural wonder. Moushabeck and Schulz invite readers along as they explore and climb Mount Kilimanjaro, capturing the essence of this majestic mountain with more than 200 full-color photographs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623718282
Publisher:	Interlink Publishing Group Inc
Publication date:	09/06/2022
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Hiltrud Schulz is a Massachusetts-based food and travel photographer. Recent books she photographed include Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa and Puerto Rico: On the Road History.

Michel Moushabeck, a writer, editor, publisher and musician, and Hiltrud Schulz, a freelance travel photographer, have been hiking together for nearly a decade. They live in Leverett, Massachusetts.

Editorial Reviews

With the publication of Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa, author Michel Moushabeck and photographer Hiltrud Schulz take their readers along as they explore and climb Mount Kilimanjaro. This impressive compendium of commentary and photography fully captures the essence of this majestic mountain. Featuring more than 200 full-color photographs enhancing an engaging and entertaining narrative that smoothly ties together personal observations with the mountain's history, its people, and its ecology, Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa is certain to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to community and academic library African Travel Photography & Photo Essay collections.

Midwest Book Review

Taking a charming journey to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, 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 mountain summit area, where virtually no plant or animal life can survive.' Schulz's stunning photos are complemented by Moushabeck's colorful description: '[T]he 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 [mountain's] most amazing sights.' This celebration of nature and human connection makes a fun escape for armchair adventurers and experienced climbers.

Travel narrative and beautiful photography come together nicely in this account of a trek up Mount Kilimanjaro.

From the Publisher

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 mountain, 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

You don't have to climb mountains to enjoy this fascinating account of Moushabeck's trek to the top of Africa's tallest peak and the world's highest freestanding mountain, Kilimanjaro. Moushabeck's text and Schulz's photographs will leave you breathless as you climb right alongside them. And even though the mountain is so accessible with no technical equipment required, the climb is nonetheless exhilarating and still dangerous. You'll be forgiven for feeling 'you are there.'

Acadiana LifeStyle

If, like me, you are mesmerized by this particular mountain and have no immediate plans to scale it, you should get the book. Moushabeck's pleasant, diaristic narrative and Schultz's well-edited images make you feel as if you are along for the climb...The book makes Kili" accessible. Enjoy the climb."

Linda Watanabe McFerrin

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 mountain is as vastly rewarding and enriching as the journey itself. You sense yourself hiking alongside the author, wheezing and gasping every step of the way!

Christopher P. Baker

Both personal and objective, the book is full of entertaining details...the climb itself, the wonders of it, as well as the considerable challenges.

Syndicated column on the best travel books of 2009 appeared in The Baltimore Sun

Travel narrative and beautiful photography come together nicely in this account of a trek up Mount Kilimanjaro.

Foreword Magazine

Compelling... Part coffee table book, part story told with beautiful images taken by Schulz, the two elements complement each other nicely. If you've ever fantasized about climbing Kilimanjaro, perhaps this book will inspire you to do just that.

inTravel Magazine

Moushabeck writes a well rounded account of everything from the pioneers of mountaineering to the hypnotic song playing in rhythm with his heartbeat during the final summit push. Coinciding with Moushabeck's vivid vocabulary, Schulz's photography captures stunning landscapes beginning with the flora and fauna down below up to the view at 19, 334 feet. She also provides environmental portraits of the places and people that make their experience a captivating one... The couples' adventure up Kilimanjaro is inspiring, proving that a spur of the moment decision can result in a life changing perspective from one of the Seven Summits.

Wend Magazine