Tag: Hiking

Camping Wild in the Aberdares

We followed a dusty two-track in the forested salient of the Aberdares. Thick patches of striking purple Vernonia shrubs …

Many of you will be familiar with ‘Mzee’, our old 1976 Range Rover. Mzee has featured heavily in this …

I came to work a few weeks ago and found a large brown envelope on my desk. Inside was …

The Masai call it the ‘Big Mountain’. The Kikuyu call it the ‘Buffalo Mountain’. Ol Donyo Sabuk, or Kilima …

I was 15 when I first climbed Mount Kenya. I did the Sirimon Route in high school. I remember …

Last Sunday I wrote about Ethiopia’s sprawling capital, and the first few days of my 10 day visit to …

I can only vaguely remember the first time I climbed up Mount Kenya. This is largely a consequence of …