About Our Kili Staff

Each of our mountain guides has a minimum of seven years of experience hiking Kilimanjaro while most of our porters, assistant guides and cooks have at least five years of experience. During a Kilimanjaro climb, hike with at least one head guide, an assistant guide, cook and several porters. Duma Explorer has permanent mountain staff, and many of our employees have worked with us since 2004. Our total mountain crew is approximately 70 people, consisting of guides, assistant guides, cooks and porters. Many of our assistant guides and cooks began their careers with Duma Explorer as porters.

Three of Duma's head guides are Wilderness First Responder certified and twenty porters, assistants, and cooks have first aid training.

Duma guides in front of Kili

Head Mountain Guide: Thomas Mambali (Kilimanjaro Licensed Mountain Guide)
Thomas Mambali has been working for Duma Explorer since 2006. More about Thomas...

Head Mountain Guide: Msuri Moshi (Kilimanjaro Licensed Mountain Guide)
Msuri has nine years of experience climbing Kilimanjaro and worked for two high end Kilimanjaro companies before joining Duma Explorer in 2006. More about Msuri...

Assistant Mountain Guide: Peter Mbise (Kilimanjaro Licensed Mountain Guide)
Peter Mbise has been working for Duma as an assistant mountain guide since 2005. He averages one Kili climb a month and two Meru climbs a year. More about Peter...

Porter/Waiter/Summit Assistant: Hamisi Athmani
Hamisi started working with Duma Explorer in early 2006 as a porter. More about Hamisi...

Porter/Waiter: Emmanuel Mungure (Kilimanjaro Licensed Mountain Guide)
Emmanuel Mungure started working with Duma in 2006 as a porter. More about Emmanuel...

Waiter/Porter/Assistant Guide: Oscar Mohammed
Oscar is experienced with many different treks in Northern Tanzania including Kilimanjaro, Lengai, Mount Meru and the Ngorongoro Highlands. More about Oscar...

Cook: Godson Mbise
Godson Mbise is from Ndatu Village and has been working as a Kilimanjaro porter with Duma Explorer since July, 2002. Godson likes working for Duma Explorer because Duma was the first company to employ him. He would like to continue working for Duma as a porter while training as a mountain cook and then guide. Godson has climbed the Machame and Lemosho routes. He is building his house in Ndatu. More about Godson...

Cook: Godwin Emanuel
Godwin Emanuel started working with Duma Explorer in 2009 as a mountain cook. More about Godwin...

Kilimanjaro and Meru Porter: Anderson Emanuely Urio
Anderson started working for Duma as a porter in 2001; he has climbed Kilimanjaro several times since then. More about Anderson...

Kilimanjaro Staff/Porter: Justine Mbise
Justine Mbise started with Duma Explorer as a Porter in 2007. More about Justine...