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IMAX Movie Kilimanjaro Takes You To the Roof of Africa

by Caitlin Snead, Age 11

This IMAX movie at Discovery Place is about six people and their guide who climb 19,340 feet of mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain and 15,000 people come to climb it every year. The climb is hard because of severe climate and temperature changes, and almost half of the people who start to climb Kilimanjaro don't make it.

It takes the party several days to climb from the rainforest at the bottom to the peak. The film follows them as they hike and camp and talk over each day's adventure. Two of the main characters are Hansi, a 13-year-old African boy, and Nicole, 12, from Massachusetts.

Along the way, the team climbs through five different ecosystems-rainforest, heath, moorland, alpine desert and glacier. Each has its beauty. The glaciers at the top are by far the best.

If you are afraid of heights, this movie may help you get over your fear. All in all, it's a great movie.

 

Editor's Note:

David Breashears, famed for his work on the IMAX film Everest, directs. The film offers educational insights into the formation of Africa and the Great Rift Valley, global warming, and the effects of altitude on the human body in an entertaining, and highly scenic, format. Suitable for grade school and up.