Tag: Mountain Climbing

• A Night on the Sacred Mountain

  

  ‘Maape!’. ‘Let’s go!’. Our Samburu guide, Lemaiyan, urged us to continue our climb after a long water break. The mid-morning heat had been turned up a notch, and our progress was slow. We zigzagged up the eastern slope of Mount Ololokwe, along a path well trodden by elephants and cattle. Stumbling under the weight of…

  Jan Fox

  13/09/2020

  Travel

  Africa, Camping, kenya, Mount Ololokwe, Mountain Climbing, Northern Kenya, Recent, Sabache Camp, Samburu

• Climbing Mount Kenya the Long Way Up

  

  I was 15 when I first climbed Mount Kenya. I did the Sirimon Route in high school. I remember magnificent vistas, my first snow, a pounding headache and a chesty cough. In hindsight, I shouldn’t have been allowed to make the summit. In the years since, friends have asked my advice about climbing either Kilimanjaro…

  Andreas Fox

  14/08/2016

  Travel

  Chogoria Route, Hiking, Mount Kenya, Mountain Climbing, Trekking