Pizza outlet reaches peak performance

15 May 2016 - 02:00 By The Daily Telegraph

You know that feeling when you've climbed a mountain, started to feel peckish, checked the pizza delivery apps on your cellphone and realised no one delivers to the highest peaks in the world?You no longer have to feel that way - Pizza Hut delivered to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro, just to prove it could.The pizza company, which has previously delivered to the White House and the International Space Station, decided to see if it could get a pizza to the top of the tallest peak in Africa.The delivery set a Guinness world record for the highest-altitude pizza delivery on land, at 5895m.The special delivery was carried out by five mountaineers to celebrate that Pizza Hut has set up shop in its 100th country.It took four days to transport the pizza, kept warm by a battery-powered heater.The employees and guides shared the pepperoni pizza once they got to the top of the mountain...

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