Kilimanjaro Quotes

“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
― Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond

“Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.”
― Hemingway Ernest, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.”
― Monty Python

“And the window shutting. Marie, his femme de ménage, protesting against the eight-hour day saying, 'If a husband works until six he gets only a little drunk on the way home and does not waste too much. If he works only until five he is drunk every night and has no money. It is the wife of the working man who suffers from this shortening of hours.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“There are no happy faces above 15,000 feet.
(From Robert's "Taking the 12 Steps Up-and Down-Kilimanjaro)”
― Robert P.