Jugoslavs To Tackle Kilimanjaro
BELGRADE. A 12-man mountaineering ex-' pedition from Jugoslavia will • shortly leave for Konya, in an attempt to climb Africa’s highest! mountain. Kilimanjaro. The ex-| pedition will try to reach the 6010 metre (about 19.700 feet) I peak of Kilimanjaro and to erect the Jugoslav flag on it as the first] Jugoslavs to climb the mountain.! The expedition will leave by] sea for the port of Assab and wiil then go by car to Addis Ababa.; the capital of Ethiopia. They will then proceed to Kenya and. via, Nairobi, to the foot of Kilimanjaro. The expedition will split intoi three groups. One group will stay! at the foot of the mountain, the' second will camp about half-way.] and the third will try to reach the peak.—Reuter. j
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28750, 22 November 1958, Page 10
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