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Tilman and Shipton’s travels in Africa
Our trip to Tanzania prompted me to re-read Snow on the Equator by H.W. (Bill) Tilman. Better known as a Himalayan explorer, Tilman actually spent fourteen years of his life in the 1920s and 1930s as a...
View ArticleA night on Kilimanjaro’s summit: the videos
As many of you will know, I write a lot of waffle in this blog which you sometimes can’t be bothered to read. For example, the Kilimanjaro trip report I wrote last month came to an eye-glazing 5,000...
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The climate zones of Kilimanjaro from space
Another short one for you today (said the bishop to the actress), as I’m still trekking in Langtang as you read this, somewhere close to the summit of a mountain (unless you’re reading it a few weeks...
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A return to the Moroccan High Atlas
By the time you read this, I’ll be in the High Atlas mountains in Morocco (hopefully) bagging a few 4,000ers. I was there three years ago, almost by accident. I left it too late to organise my...
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Is this the world’s strangest summit cairn?
Take a look at the photo below, and tell me if you can see anything funny about it. Don’t worry. It’s not a scene from War of the Worlds, and that’s not a Martian fighting machine behind Edita’s head,...
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Bagging 4,000m peaks in Morocco
It was arranged at very short notice, but our brief visit to the High Atlas over Christmas and New Year, was as enjoyable as any week’s holiday I’ve ever had. I found a local trekking agent Pathfinders...
View ArticleHigh Atlas 4,000ers: the videos
Some more dodgy videos – but not in that sense. I found a new method of making these which involved chucking all the video footage into a food mixer, whizzing it around for a minute or so, and seeing...
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Is Dervla Murphy most admired for her writing or her travelling style?
I’ve recently been reading In Ethiopia With a Mule, about a trek across – you guessed it – Ethiopia, in the company of a mule, by the famously brave travel writer Dervla Murphy. Dervla undertook her...
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Doug Scott’s expedition to the Tibesti Mountains in Chad
In 2016 when I was working in Rome, Edita was posted to Chad in central Africa by the UN World Food Programme, to run a project distributing mosquito nets the length and breadth of the country. She...
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Kilimanjaro cable car: is it a good idea? That depends on its purpose
It was widely reported earlier this month that the Tanzanian Minister for Tourism has announced that work will begin soon on a cable car up Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. There have been...
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