Rainer Braehler | Race Director and Head of Marketing

Rainer is the owner of  the agency International Sports Travel and founder of the Kilimanjaro Summit Challenge. He recently went to Kilimanjaro with Elias Lyimo, and together they  take care of all athletes and the medical team.

Christian Kreisel │ High altitude medical specialist

It was during his training as a physiotherapist that Christian Kreisel discovered his passion for the mountains.  For his studies of human medicine in Marburg he wrote his doctoral thesis together with Professor Braun and Professor Jansen in the field of high altitude medicine. The official title: "With MRT detectable morphological changes of the brain after elevation of more than 5,000 m for hobby mountaineers". Christian Kreisel has completed long-term studies on Kilimanjaro and has reached the Uhuru summit several times.

Christian is the leader of the medical research team for the Kilimanjaro Summit Challenge.