Tag: Trekking
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Weekend Camping in the Aberdares
Many of you will be familiar with ‘Mzee’, our old 1976 Range Rover. Mzee has featured heavily in this column over the 30 or so years that it has been running, and his trips have tended to generate more interest from readers than your average Going Places article. We received lots of emails, in particular,…
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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…
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Trekking with the World’s Rarest Wolf
Last Sunday I wrote about Ethiopia’s sprawling capital, and the first few days of my 10 day visit to the country. Once we felt we’d exhausted Addis’ coffee shops and museums, we got on a bus and made the eight hour journey south to the Bale Mountains. The first leg was down the long, straight,…
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