Roman scaling Kilimanjaro
Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of under-fire English premiership giants Chelsea has begun scaling Africa's highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, at the start of a 10-day visit to Tanzania, officials said on Friday.
The head of the Kilimanjaro National Park Authority (KINAPA), Mapinduzi Mdessa said Abramovich was accompanied by 113 local porters when he started trekking up the 5900m (19330 feet) Kilimanjaro on Thursday night with six other foreign nationals.
"He landed here by a chopper in the morning from Dar es Salaam and registered ready for the exercise. It will take them six to seven days to reach the summit," said Mdessa.
He said Abramovich would also visit the Serengeti National park before he flies out of the country on September 11.
The Chelsea boss arrived in Tanzania on the day FIFA fined his club and hit it with a ban on signing players until January 2011 as a punishment for their role in a contractual dispute.
The sanction came after FIFA's Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) found Chelsea guilty of inducing French teenager player Gael Kakuta to break his contract with French first division club Lens.
Chelsea plan to appeal against the ruling.
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