Originally Posted by WarChild

That should be akward, what with all the guides around and all. What guides you ask? Well, they're mandatory to "climb" Kilimanjaro. If your friends have never been at alttitude, they're in for a pretty big surprise. While not terribly high (compared to the 8000M giants say), it's still quite high up. On top of that, the guides push a steady pace. Roughly twice the suggested rate of climb for proper acclimatization. Reaching the summit will be at the end of a very long night of scrambling up loose shale and I highly doubt they'll be in any condition for this kind of thing.