By Karen Valenti, Program Manager The Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project (KPAP), an initiative of the International Mountain Explorers Connection (IMEC), is a Tanzanian NGO whose focus is improving the distressing working conditions of the porters on Kilimanjaro.  We do this by: Lending donated clothing at no charge to the porters who are climbing Kilimanjaro Providing [...]

Source: PakTribune SKARDU, PAKISTAN June 29: Five local porters including two brothers serving the Italian mountaineers Monday drowned in a stream. The ill-fated porters were trying to cross the stream and fell prey to spate of water. The divers were trying to recover their bodies. The hapless porters were with the Italian team, which was [...]

(this article was published in Dawn, the largest circulation English language paper in Pakistan. A short version has been published in Karakoram Weekly) Dr. Kenneth Iain MacDonald (IPPG rep Pakistan) The writer is Professor of Geography and International Development Studies at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, For the past few weeks the papers of [...]

Dear Friends, As you may know, for the last six years I have been involved with the work of the International Porter Protection Group (IPPG) with the aim of improving the working conditions of trekking porters worldwide. In mid January 2004, I will be climbing (or crawling up!) Kilimanjaro, the highest peak on the African [...]