I've got a new piece up at a great online magazine called The Ascender. It uses the story of my own trip up the mountain as a window onto the political and environmental concerns on Kilimanjaro. It also teaches you how to say "I'm cool as a banana" in Swahili.
You can check out the piece here: Mountain Strain.
As a bonus for actually looking at this blog, here's a fun video I made with some footage from the trip.