Hiking Kilimanjaro

I think you will make it.

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Despite an age-limit of 10 years for a climbing permit, Keats Boyd from Los Angeles reached the summit on 21 January 2008 at the age of 7.[82] This record was equaled by Montannah Kenney from Texas in March 2018

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he ran from Umbwe Gate to the top in 4 hours and 56 minutes and returned to the Mweka Gate at 1,630 m (5,350 ft) in a total time of 6 hours, 42 minutes and 24 seconds

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Wheelchair user Bernard Goosen from South Africa scaled Kilimanjaro in six days in 2007. In 2012, Kyle Maynard who has no forearms or lower legs, crawled unassisted to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.

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Everyone deals with the altitude differently, doesn’t matter age, physical fitness, etc

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Everyone deals with the altitude differently, doesn’t matter age, physical fitness, etc

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Evactly. People you'd never think would struggle, struggle and others who are a physical mess have no problems.

I have done a safari and seen Kilimanjaro but have not climbed it.

I’ve done Inca trail which gets up to around 14. Everest base camp gets to 17,600, but you sleep higher on that trek than Kilimanjaro. For kili, you have a huge push in summit day, but I think the highest you sleep is around 15k. Since you just climb up to the summit and then go back down to 10k, altitude shouldn’t affect me as much as spending considerable time over 17k. I felt out of it at Gorekshep on Everest base camp, but that’s the only problems I had, and I felt fine the next morning when we descended.