Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s tallest mountain and the world’s largest free-standing mountain.Kilimanjaro is very popular with both experienced hikers and first time adventurers because it is considered to be the easiest of the seven summits. Scaling the mountain requires no technical skills or equipment, such as rope, harness, crampons or ice axe. Therefore, it is a hiking or “walk up” peak, not a mountaineering or climbing peak. Many people who climb Kilimanjaro have no significant hiking or backpacking experience when they arrive.