Kilimanjaro? We’ll take the cable car

TANZANIA wants to boost tourism by putting a cable car on Kilimanjaro.

Around 50,000 tourists climb the 19,340ft mountain, which is Africa’s highest, each year. The government hopes the cable car would increase numbers by 50 per cent by providing access to those unable to climb it.

Talks have taken place with a Chinese and a Western company. ‘We are still doing a feasibility study,’ said tourism minister Constantine Kanyasu. The length of the route has not been finalised, with porter and guide groups leading opposition to it.