/ 3 January 2000

TWO TOURIST DIE ON KILIMANJARO

TWO tourists died while scaling Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania as part of the new millennium celebrations, Tanzania’s tourism minister, Zakia Meghji, said. The minister identified the two as Werner Hein, 55, a German who died on Friday of heart failure, and US national Jennifer Steven, 54, who died on Sunday after collapsing on Sunday. on Sunday morning. The two were among 1154 people who participated in the 2000 Mount Kilimanjaro Expedition, which set off on December 20 to welcome the third millennium by scaling the 19341-foot mountain, Africa’s highest. A total of 210 climbers managed to reach the summit.