95,000 steps to the roof of Africa.
Take them on your own street.
Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro takes roughly 95,000 steps — 19,341 feet of stories. This month, log your everyday walks and climb it from home, camp by camp along the real route our teams have summited sixteen times. Friends sponsor your climb; broken water wells in Malawi get repaired.
Your sidewalk. His mountain. Their water.
The proven charity-challenge shape, wrapped in a route our founder has actually led sixteen times.
Sign up free
You get a personal fundraising page and your own mountain — this one — to climb over the month.
Walk, log, ascend
Your phone already counts your steps. Log them here and watch yourself climb the real Lemosho Route — Big Tree Camp, Shira, Barranco, Kosovo Camp, the summit push.
Friends sponsor the climb
A dollar a camp, a penny a step, or one gift at the summit — every dollar repairs wells in Malawi and is currently matched.
The ascent
Log steps and climb. Camps light up as you reach them — each one is a real camp from the itinerary, with the story our climbers tell about it. Add this page to your phone's home screen and it works like an app.
Sponsors climb with you
Your fundraising page and this tracker are one experience: every gift updates your totals, and every word of encouragement shows up right here on the mountain — usually right when the climb gets hard.
Sample data — in the live version these totals and messages flow in automatically from your personal fundraising page on Classy, the same secure platform Clean Water Climb already uses for every donation.
Sponsor this climb Start your own
Until then, logging is ten seconds: glance at your watch or phone, type the number. It's how the world's biggest challenge campaigns work today.
The summit is the story. The water is the point.
Since 2011, Clean Water Climb teams have climbed Kilimanjaro sixteen times and raised over $5.2 million — enough to repair 4,200+ broken water wells serving ~7.5 million people in rural Malawi, through Child Legacy International. Now the climb comes to you.
"You will never know your true potential unless you leave your comfort zone." — Dr. Buumba Bubala, Zambia — quoted on every Clean Water Climb trip flyer
Rope up: climb as a team
Churches, offices, classrooms — a team shares one mountain and one total. First team to Uhuru gets bragging rights; every team gets a village's worth of gratitude. And if the mountain bug bites you… the real 2027 Kilimanjaro trips are open.
Start a team Or join the real climb →The short FAQ
Do the steps have to be special "hiking" steps?
No — every step counts: sidewalks, treadmills, malls, stairs. Your phone or watch already counts them; you just log the number here.
How long do I have?
The challenge month. 95,000 steps is about 3,200 a day — a very doable daily walk, or a few big weekend days. Finish early and keep climbing for a teammate.
What if I fall behind?
Then you fall behind, and it costs you nothing — catch-up steps count in full, and nobody on this rope team keeps score. In Mike's words: there is always grace. The goal is to walk with us, at your pace; the mountain isn't going anywhere.
Where does the money go?
Water well repair in Malawi through Child Legacy International (5,300+ pumps restored since 2008). Clean Water Climb's founder takes no fees and is fully self-funded. Donations are tax-deductible (EIN 93-4081451).
Is this an app?
It works like one — open it on your phone and choose "Add to Home Screen." No app store, no account, nothing to update.
Everyone has a Kilimanjaro.
Yours starts at the front door.
95,000 steps from now, a village in Malawi drinks clean water because you went for a walk.
Start climbing — free