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Walk in Wild Places Experts in African Mountain Adventures. Where the road ends, the fun begins! We climb Kilimanjaro in a semi-luxury manner. Nice to know!

High-quality equipment, with a few extras like tent-lighting, heated mess-tents, warm water to wash your face and feet; more space to spread out in your tent because we don't like being cramped up to save a few dollars. You'll have your own two-person-tent (people wishing to share will have a three-person tent). Staff: Each person has a minimum of four porters supporting them. One to carry your pe

rsonal equipment, the others carrying a share of tents, sleeping gear, food, cooking equipment, portable toilet tents, etc. Plus one guide for every two trekkers; cook, cook's assistant, and an English-speaking trek leader. We pay our staff more than the minimum amounts suggested by the Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project. And we already include a 'tip' in the price you pay. This means that when you've paid for your trip you don't have to worry about how much to tip. And you get to hand out the tip at the end of the trip to say thank you to your favourite staff members.

A well-worn nomad trail. Who knows how many hundreds or thousands of years nomads have walked this path to find grazing ...
23/12/2022

A well-worn nomad trail. Who knows how many hundreds or thousands of years nomads have walked this path to find grazing for their livestock...

Next confirmed trekking trip:
Fri 17 to Sun 26 February 2023.
Also:
November and December 2023.

















 













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Water, yes, water! carved these paths through the desert! And, for a while, every once in a while, these pools sparkle w...
07/12/2022

Water, yes, water! carved these paths through the desert! And, for a while, every once in a while, these pools sparkle with crystal clear water. Frogs abound. Grasses and flowers adorn their banks. Birds come to quench their thirst...

Next confirmed trip:
Fri 17 to Sun 26 February 2023.

















 













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Ötzi's story evolves...
08/11/2022

Ötzi's story evolves...

Ötzi is the star of glacial archaeology. Incredibly, the ice mummy and his artefacts were only preserved by a string of lucky coincidences. Really?

04/10/2022

Born on this day, 1976.10.04; Ueli Steck, Swiss climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II East in 2006, Gasherbrum II and Makalu in 2009, Sh**ha Pangma and Cho Oyu in 2011, in 2012 and Annapurna I in 2013. He died in 2017 by a fall on Nuptse, aged 40.

Ueli Steck (4 October 1976 – 30 April 2017) was a Swiss rock climber and mountaineer. He was the first to climb Annapurna solo, and set speed records on the North Face trilogy in the Alps. He won two Piolet d'Or awards, in 2009 and 2014. Having previously summited Mount Everest, Steck died on 30 April 2017 after falling during an acclimatizing climb for an attempt on the Hornbein route on the West Ridge of Everest without supplementary oxygen.

At the age of 17, Steck achieved the 9th difficulty rating (UIAA) in climbing. As an 18-year-old he climbed the North Face of the Eiger and the Bonatti Pillar in the Mont Blanc massif. In June 2004, he and Stephan Siegrist climbed the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau within 25 hours. Another success was the so-called "Khumbu-Express Expedition" in 2005, for which the climbing magazine Climb named him one of the three best alpinists in Europe. The project consisted of the first solo climb of the north wall of Cholatse (6,440 m) and the east wall of Taboche (6505 m).

Steck set his first speed record on the North Face of the Eiger in 2007, climbing it in 3 hours and 54 minutes. The record was lowered by Steck himself to 2 hours 47 minutes 33 seconds the following year.

In May 2008, climbing Annapurna, he broke off his ascent due to an avalanche threat, but the next week climbed to assist Spanish climber Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, who had collapsed. Medical help was slow in coming and the Spanish climber died despite Steck's help.
In 2008, Steck was the first recipient of the Eiger Award for his mountaineering achievements.

In April 2013, Steck and two other mountaineers, Simone Moro and Jonathan Griffith, were involved in an incident with several Sherpas who were fixing ropes for commercial expeditions on the Lhotse face above camp 2 on the Mount Everest South Col route which subsequently escalated into a dangerous confrontation with many Sherpas after Steck and his companions returned to camp 2, and became an international media event.

On 8 and 9 October 2013 Steck soloed the Lafaille route on the South Face of Annapurna. on the main and highest part of the face; this was his third attempt on the route and has been called "one of the most impressive Himalayan climbs in history", with Steck taking 28 hours to make the trip from Base Camp to summit and back again. Steck's was the first solo ascent of Annapurna, which won him his second Piolet d'Or.

In the winter of 2014/15, Steck and Michael Wohlleben linked up the three north faces of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo/Drei Zinnen in 16 hours. In the summer of 2015, he climbed all 82 summits in the Alps higher than 4000 meters in 62 days without the use of motorized travel. Two days slower than the 60-day record, his time included a period when Steck had suspended the tour on July 22, after his climbing partner on the Aiguille de Rochefort, Martijn Seuren, had fallen to his death on this final peak to make him the first Dutch person to climb all 82 4000ers. Later that year Steck set a new record for the North Face of the Eiger, soloing it in 2 hours 22 minutes and 50 seconds.

In April 2016, Steck and his German mountaineering partner, David Göttler, found the bodies of Alex Lowe and paraglider David Bridges. Lowe and Bridges were killed in an avalanche in 1999 while searching for a route up Sh**hapangma to attempt the first ski descent.

Steck was born as the third son to a copper smith in the town of Langnau in the Emmental valley in Switzerland. As a child he played hockey and joined his father on ski tours. He was a carpenter by training and in adulthood lived in Ringgenberg near Interlaken, Switzerland.

Steck died on 30 April 2017 while acclimatizing for an attempt of the Hornbein route on the West Ridge of Everest without supplementary oxygen. This route had been climbed only a few times, the last of which was in 1991. His plan was to climb the Hornbein Couloir to the summit, then proceed with a traverse to the peak of Lhotse, the world's fourth-highest mountain. This combination had not been achieved.

On April 16, during preparations for the attempt, his climbing partner, Tenji Sherpa, suffered frostbite, which would take some weeks to heal. Steck carried on with scouting and acclimatization, climbing up to Everest's Camp 2, en route to the South Col. On April 29, he changed his plans, texting Tenji that he was about to instead climb the nearby peak of Nuptse, and did not respond to a follow-up question.

On April 30, he began climbing around 4:30 AM, accompanied initially by French climber Yannick Graziani. Approximately 300 meters (980 ft) below the summit, he fell an estimated 1,000 metres (3,300 ft), seen by several Sherpas and expedition members around the valley. It is not known what caused the fall. His body was found in the Western Cwm, between camps 1 and 2, and transported back to Kathmandu where memorial services were held. Steck was survived by his wife Nicole.

Info: https://buff.ly/3UTsagV, https://buff.ly/3C0pp4G. Photo Credit: PatitucciPhoto

02/10/2022

The 24th September marked 47 years since Doug Scott and Dougal Haston stepped on to the roof of the world.
Doug wrote in Up and About-The Hard Road to Everest,
“At 6 p.m., we found ourselves walking side by side on to the summit. Dougal, usually a reticent fellow, had a huge smile on his face and then he gave me a hug. After so much effort, and on a perfect late summer evening, we were there.”
It was an incredible achievement. It was a truly remarkable team effort which changed the lives of all the team, especially me.

19/09/2022

12 signatures are needed! Eliminate Yosemite’s proposed Big Wall Permit System

17/09/2022

Born on this day, 1944.09.17; Reinhold Messner, THE GREATEST! Messner is the FIRST PERSON, to have climbed all the fourteen eight-thousanders WITHOUT USING BOTTLED OXYGEN. And he’s alive to tell all about it. Many happy one Reinhold!🙏

Photo ©: Roberto Carnevali.

20/08/2022

On this day, 20 August in 1980, South Tyrolian (Italian) climber Reinhold Messner became the FIRST-EVER person to have climbed to the summit of Mt (8848.86 m) SOLO WITHOUT BOTTLED OXYGEN. Photo ©: Reinhold Messner Archives.

23/07/2022
20/07/2022

Born on this day, 1919.07.20; Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG ONZ KBE, bee keeper, mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist from New Zealand, who made first ascents of several 6000ers and 7000ers, but is best known for the first ascent of Everest in 1953 with his Nepali companion Tenzing Norgay Sherpa. He also drove a farm tractor to the South Pole in 1958 and had a flight with Neil Armstrong to the North Pole in 1985.

Photo ©: David Roberts ARPS.

21/05/2022

On Sunday the 15th of May, Pierre Carter took off from the South Col of the slopes of Mount Everest. The last leg of the journey was pretty touch and go. After arriving at Camp 2 a week before, Pierre caught a horrible virus. Trying to overcome an illness at 7 000 metres is near impossible, and Pier...

14/05/2022

Ukrainian climber Antonina Samoilova on the summit of Mt (8848.86 m), 12.05.2022.

Photo ©: Antonina Samoilova/Instagram.

13/05/2022

A team of black Americans scripted history by scaling the world highest peak this morning, according to the expedition organiser.

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