Who was the latest person to climb Mount Kilimanjaro?

Answer 1

7 year-old Keats Boyd of Sherman Oaks, California is thought to be the youngest to have summited, he did so on January 21, 2008.

The second youngest person to climb Kilimanjaro is thought to be Callum Cutinha of Sheffield, England (UK). He is thought to be the youngest in the world to trek Kilimanjaro using the challenging Machame route in 6 days (most adults do this in 7 days). Callum, 9 years old, along with his brother Cyril, 15 years old, reached Uhuru Peak on 14th August 2010.

Answer 2

The youngest females to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro were four sisters. Jillian, Velma, Lynette and Cheryl Hunter were six years old and older when they climbed the mountain in the early 1970's (repeat climbs).

Other young females to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro are:

Velma Gene Hunter at age 9 climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. She wrote her name beside her dad Gene Douglas Hunter at the top of the mountain.

One female to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro is Kaylee Moniz, Kaylee was 10 years and 3 1/2 months old when she reached the summit of Kilimanjaro on June 20, 2008. Details can be found on climb7.com.

Tanzanian Silipa Swai, broke the record for the youngest female to climb Kilimanjaro. She reached the summit on 20 August 2009 at 3.06pm, which means she was 10 years, 1 month, 1 day and 22hrs when she reached Uhuru peak, the summit of Kilimanjaro and the highest point in Tanzania.

Noa Yoder of NYC climbed Kili 8/24/2007 at age 10 years and 44 days. She's the 4th generation in her family to climb!

Answer 3

Update to below:

With respect to the facts that:

1. the family had already taken a 6 year old to spend three consecutive nights at 6,010m elevation in the Himalaya, with no significant deleterious effects,

2. that the mother is the holder of the world record for the fastest woman to climb Kilimanjaro and therefore has substantial experience of altitude and acclimatisation,

3. that the father organises around 250 expeditions to Kilimanjaro's summit every year and has access to some of the industry's most highly trained, diligent and professional workforce,

permission was granted on 10th Nov 2012, by the Director General of Tanzania National Parks, Mr Alan JH Kijazi to the Rees-Evans family of British nationality and Tanzanian residency, to climb Kilimanjaro together.

On Monday 26th November 2012 at 1341 all members of the family reached Uhuru Peak, 5,895m, the highest point in Africa. On the day they summitted, the ages of the children were as follows:

Bran David Caradoc Rees-Evans was 5 years 136 days old;

Linus Michael Priam Rees-Evans was 7 years 363 days old;

Arienwyn Guinevere Rees-Evans was 9 years 213 days old.

The children acclimatised well and maintained oxygen saturation at all times above 70%.

Their daily reports and summit photos are visible on the Team Kilimanjaro blog.

The youngest person to summit Kilimanjaro is Keats Boyd. He summitted at the age of 7-years old on 21 January 2008. He was legally certified as the youngest person to do so by the head of TANAPA on the mountain, and climbed via the Lemosho route.

Velma Gene Hunter is the youngest girl to summit Mount Kilimanjaro with her dad Gene Douglas Hunter and sisters Jillian, Lynette and Cheryl.

The second youngest boy to summit Kilimanjaro using the Machame Route in 6 days is 9-year old Callum Cutinha of Sheffield, England (UK) who reached Uhuru Peak on 14th August 2010 along with his brother Cyril aged 15.
The youngest person to summit Kilimanjaro is Bran Rees-Evans. He reached the summit with his 7 year old brother and 9 year old sister, and his parents, at 1341 (local time) on Monday 26th November 2012 at the age of 5 years and 136 days. He summitted Mount Meru (4,584m) with his family two weeks previously.

Answer 4

Nikolai Clayton Thiessen reached Uhuru Peak on the 30th of June 2013 at 06:30am!