Mary Masanja, the Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and
Tourism, said the process to introduce the cable car on the mountain is on
track and would begin very soon.
Masanja, told a news conference in the capital Dodoma, that
the cable cars would mostly be used by tourists and other climbers who could
not walk to the mountain’s peak on foot.
Mount Kilimanjaro, one of Tanzania’s leading tourist
destinations, is about 5,895 meters above sea level, with roughly 50,000
climbers from across the world attempting to reach the summit of the mountain
annually.
In Dec. 2020, Paul Banga, the Tanzania National Parks
Authority (TANAPA) assistant conservation commissioner for national parks
development, said the government of Tanzania had approved the installation of a
cable car on Mount Kilimanjaro.
Banga said the government had given TANAPA the green light
to invest in the installation of the cable car.
Xinhua/NAN