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"We would highly recommend your company."
Yasmi C.
New Jersey, USA
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EDDIE FRANK, Tusker's founder, who has been climbing Kilimanjaro for 29 years, is a certified Wilderness First Responder, and member of the Wilderness Medical Society.
Tusker's medical record is impeccable, and Eddie plans to keep it that way. Your safety is Tusker's primary concern.
If your guide has not been medically trained to deal with a high altitude emergency, your climb above 14,000 ft. could be life threatening. This is no joke. Each year 5-15 climbers die on Kilimanjaro. Each of these deaths could have been avoided if the "licensed" guide had received high-altitude medical training, and had oxygen and a portable hyperbaric bag on board. The Tanzanian licensing authority does not require their "licensed" guides to undergo any definitive medical training.
Eddie's mission has been to build Tusker's guides into the finest medically qualified guiding team on the mountain. And they are. Together with Sue Purvis, a licensed medical instructor from Wilderness Medical Associates, Eddie has designed an intensive 6-day course on medical emergencies and mountain rescue. Only Tusker guides are permitted to take the course, and each of them must pass this course annually as a precondition for their ongoing employment. This is first and only medical certification course specifically designed for guides on Kilimanjaro.
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 Two Medically Trained Guides On
Every Climb
If there are two or more climbers on your climb, you will be led by 2 Tusker Trail medically trained and certified guides (all other outfits use only one guide). This means that in the event of an evacuation, a medically certified guide, carrying oxygen, will accompany you down- not a porter.
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 Monitoring Your Health -
Twice a day, your guides will monitor your lungs, your heart and your oxygen saturation rate. They accomplish this using a stethoscope and a pulse-OXIMETER. These tools, combined with their intensive mountain medical training, and the professional use of a PORTABLE HYPERBARIC BAG guarantee that you will not become a statistic on Kilimanjaro.
Each guide also carries a mobile phone and stays in regular contact with our base in Moshi.
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Guide Medical Training