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Troops Conquer Africa’s Highest Mountain

At 19,341 feet up, it can get cold, even in July.

Scouts with boys Troop 175 and girls Troop 1175, both of Simsbury, Connecticut, saw the water in their water bottles freeze while they summited the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

For two years, the Scouts held fundraisers and secured donor scholarships to go on the two-week journey to Africa. After flying from New York to Kenya, the troops took buses to a hotel at the base of the