Kilimanjaro
Guide Training May '05
For info on past training
sessions please see:
Guides
training
Bi – annual training
a success
The previous season of climbs proved the impact of intense
training held last November. Feedback received back
from clients (feedback forms given to all clients for
confidential information) showed that knowledge and
professionalism was reaching new highs. And so during
the ‘low season’ of April and May, climbs
manager Ake Lindstrom decided to extend the training
session over both months cumulating with a intense 5
day session on Kilimanjaro.
The format of the training this season
included:
1. Classroom based sessions 3 days x 3 hours per day
per week with end week test sessions for almost 2 months
(over 20 sessions).
a. First aid
i. Wilderness first responder training
ii. Specialist CPR training by Red Cross Society
iii. Evactuation methodologies
iv. Hoopoe mountain sickness testing and procedures
v. Oxygen therapy & Pulse oximeter training
b. Geology
i. Earth structure
ii. Plate motions
iii. Rift valleys
iv. How Kilimanjaro was created
v. Geology / volcanology on Kilimanjaro (main rock types,
formations and volcano sequences)
c. Glaciology
i. Main glaciers
ii. Glacial features on Kili
d. Flora / fauna
2. Mountain based training –
5 day session (Machame camp, Shira camp and plateau,
Lava tower and surrounding areas, arrow glacier and
surrounding area, Western Breach, summit region and
ash pit, glacial valleys and lava flows of southern
Kibo).
a. Specialist botanist Danial Sitoni (Tanzania Pesticides
Research Institute botanist) spent two days with the
guides in the forest and heath zones describing species
and zones.
b. Geology & glaciology: with the help of detailed
reference books all the lava flow history was covered
along with the concurrent glacial movements.
c. Mountain sickness, Rescue routes & methodologies
i. AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness) testing
ii. Oxygen therapy
iii. Carrying patients (in custom made Hoopoe evacuation
stretchers)
iv. Which routes when
v. Communications
vi. Hypothermia wraps and treatment
The time on the mountain was also an
excuse to increase fitness levels pre season. All guides
set a very respectable sub 5 hours decent time from
Stella Point to Mweka gate…
Next training already set
Hoopoe runs training sessions bi-annually in November
and then in April / May. Next November training starts
right away on the first until the 25th during which
time will also be spent on the mountain once again.
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