Market Day
The trails provided ample shade as they crept through dense beech forests, and then all of a sudden would lead us onto exposed high mountain pastures.
Arrival at Kilimanjaro’s Crater
As we climb, sucking in air, we are all intensely aware that this place, like the depths of the ocean or the moon, can never be our home.
Our journey to Maasailand
I hoped that my safari guests would appreciate what was to come - staying in a mobile camp in Maasailand.
Friendship and challenge to the top of Africa
When talking to people about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, one of the first questions I am asked is if they are fit enough. In actual fact how you are able to acclimatise is a far more important factor, and unless you have been to high altitudes often, it is not possible ...
Nine days hiking Africa’s highest mountain
Why do people climb Africa's highest mountain, the summit of which is at 19,340 feet / 5,895 metres asl (above mean sea level) and has half the available oxygen as any point at sea level? Firstly it is a journey on foot. This is significant, and is one of the ...
Hunter-gatherers and pastoralists
As we turned off the main road just after the little town of Karatu, we were greeted by “The Mogul Highway “. Ron and Sherri Adams had never before had the experience of sitting in a car seat and doing a full aerobics class all at the same time. After ...
The hike to Lengai
A few weeks ago I left for Ngorongoro Crater with my family, my sister and her three boys. We spent the morning enjoying the wildlife and scenery in the Crater, and then met up with my sister-in-law and her two boys and continued northwards to another lesser-known caldera on the ...
Quest for chimpanzees
Gillian and I had been to Uganda before to see the rare mountain gorilla, and this time we decided to travel there to see chimpanzees. Our first chimp track was at Kibale national park near Fort Portal. Here the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) have habituated three chimpanzee communities to the ...
Trout fishing from Rutundu cabins on Mount Kenya
We arrived at dusk after a couple of hours drive on a very rough mountainous track. On the way we had seen signs of buffalo, elephant, eland and hyaena. We also came across my first flock of moorland francolin, a very attractive fellow to me! Our Land-Rovers pulled to a ...
Kilimanjaro Western Breach News
The Western Breach Route on Mount Kilimanjaro was closed by Kilimanjaro National Park authorities following a rock fall which killed three climbers and injured others on 4th January 2006. Since then the park authorities have conducted several reconnaissance trips to the Western Breach to determine if and how the route ...
Close Encounters of the primate kind….
The young Blackback came over and sat not far away, gazing into the distance, as if in deep thought. And then an interaction most people only dream about - being fifteen feet from a four hundred pound Gorilla picking scabs off his fingers and eating them. A curious gaze from ...
To the summit of Mount Meru
My ten year old son Laurence has recently become interested in mountains and climbing them. He had no experience climbing, or even hiking very far, so I was initially a bit skeptical. However his frequent requests to climb a mountain led me to suggest Mount Meru after the New Year. ...
