18 year old Sarah Abdullah, the daughter of Jordanian King Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein was really interested in Mountain hiking and went for the Kilimanjaro but unfortunately this mountain proved to be too tough than she ever expected. She was given a hue number of escorts but gave up after acquiring mountain illness. Along with her were the minders, medical personnel and other staff. She however managed to reach the 4,700 metres Kibo point before she and the entourage of 24 people made an about-turn last weekend.
Majority of her team members were students from Jordan’s international schools who had intensions of climbing Africa’s highest peak in the Moshi District of Kilimanjaro region and also go visit the famous Ngorongoro Crater in the Ngorongoro District of Arusha. Though she wasn’t able to get to the peak at Uhuru point which is at about 5,895 metres, Nicholas Minja the Executive Director of Big Expedition and Safaris, who handled the team’s mission to Kilimanjaro, said the princess described her experience as interesting and successful.
She will not be getting any certificate as such certificates are only for those people who manage to get to the highest peak. She failed to get to the peak because the weather was so bad and in fact she got ill during the expedition and had to be escorted down the mountain but there are some there other people who had gone with her that managed to get to Uhuru peak so said Mr. Minja. All of them fell sick along the route and the doctors were forced to escort them down therefore calling off their trip.
According to some sources, Sarah however promised her to travel back to Tanzania in the future to try again her mission to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro, according to sources.
