Eddie Frank, Tusker's founder, is a high altitude expert, and Wilderness First Responder. A few years ago he teamed up with a wilderness medical instructor to design an 8-day High Altitude First Responder course - specifically for Tusker's crack guides. Each year our 18 guides MUST pass this intensive course, led by Eddie Frank. Eddie's vision has been to build the safest and most reliable company on Mount Kilimanjaro. And he believes the only way to do that is to ensure the safety and well-being of his clients.

Kilimanjaro Experts

You leave home with the comfort of knowing that during your Kilimanjaro climb all you have to worry about is putting one foot in front of the other. We take care of the rest.

• Your tent is set up
• Your bag is waiting for you at your tent
• The dining tent is a warm, dry and comfortable haven with hot meals, around which you gather and relax
• Your day is celebrated by the porters singing your welcome into camp
• Plenty of Katadyn-filtered drinking water
• Rugged high end 4-season mountain tents
• Comfortable air/foam mattresses
• Regular health checks by medically trained guides, carrying plenty of oxygen
• Comprehensive and safe evacuation to definitive medical care in an emergency
  
  

Eddie Frank, Tusker's founder, has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro 42 times since his first climb in 1977. He continues to lead our large climbs. By doing so, Eddie maintains close contact with our ground operation in Tanzania and keeps informed about local conditions.

He has personally handpicked each of our expert Tanzanian guides for their leadership qualities and group skills. Eddie is a medical professional, and trains the guides once a year in an intensive 8-day High Altitude Medical course. Your safest and best choice is to climb with the most experienced company on Mount Kilimanjaro.

Eddie's vision has been to build Tusker into the most reputable climbing operation on Mount Kilimanjaro. We believe he's done it. And so do the hundreds of people whom we lead to the summit every year.

The logistics and details that go into organizing your actual Kilimanjaro climb are vast and exacting. During thirty-three years of climbing Kilimanjaro, Tusker has assembled its crack Tanzanian team whose only job is to plan and execute a perfect climb.

From ensuring that your camp gear is immaculate, planning your superb meals, to organizing the logistics of a possible evacuation, our crew is a well-honed machine. You'll be amazed.

All other companies use one head guide regardless of the group size. With smaller groups our climber-to-guide ration is 2-1. With larger groups our climber-to-guide ratio is 5-to-1.

This makes your Kilimanjaro climb much safer and much more enjoyable.

You can bet, with the amount of effort that we put into the quality of our guide training, and logistics, that we spare absolutely no expense when it comes to our camp equipment and our emergency medical equipment.

Our US office is located at Lake Tahoe, and has a team of super-friendly professionals.

We hear it all the time. The Tusker Team goes to great ends to ensure that your trip starts - and ends - on a superb note. Our Trek coordinators have been hired for their love of the outdoors, their commitment to the environment, and their attention to detail. And --they join our trips regularly.

As we employ 18 Kilimanjaro guides, and run our own Tanzanian operation, we are extremely flexible.

You can choose your own dates for no extra charge, or join our scheduled climbs.