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Mount Kenya: Simon Calder tackles Africa's other summit ; With a guide, a map and lots of tea breaks, Simon Calder retraces the steps of Felice Benuzzi, a PoW who escaped to climb Mount Kenya - then snuck back into camp
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No prizes for guessing which I am aiming for: yes, the easiest of
the three, the 4,985m Point Lenana, the so-called "trekkers' peak",
for which almost no previous experience is required; Sir Edmund
Hillary need not apply. The two taller points are, well, points:
shafts of rock that soar scarily skywards. These are "technical
climbs", requiring of equipment such as ice axes and ropes, plus
expertise. To tackle Nelion (5,188m) or Batian (just 11m higher) you
need to be a proper mountaineer - li...
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A breathless feat
The Independent - London
; With a guide, a map and lots of tea breaks, Simon Calder retraces the steps of Felice Benuzzi, a PoW who escaped to climb Mount Kenya - then snuck back into camp Three in the morning is a tough time to start a walk, especially if it involves clambering over scree, snow and ice to gain half-a- mile
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Mount Kenya: Simon Calder tackles Africa's other summit ; With a guide, a map and lots of tea breaks, Simon Calder retraces the steps of Felice Benuzzi, a PoW who escaped to climb Mount Kenya - then snuck back into camp
Belfast Telegraph
; No prizes for guessing which I am aiming for: yes, the easiest of the three, the 4,985m Point Lenana, the so-called "trekkers' peak", for which almost no previous experience is required; Sir Edmund Hillary need not apply. The two taller points are, well, points: shafts of rock that soar scarily
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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MYTHIC MOUNTAIN EXERTS A STRONG PULL.(News)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Byline: Bryan Mealer Associated Press MOUNT KENYA, Kenya -- The jagged slopes of Mount Kenya, where 12 members of one family died in a plane crash this week, have long drawn climbers looking for a challenge and religious believers who say their god dwells there. It may be second to Tanzania's Mount
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A high-flying adventure in Africa
Chicago Sun-Times
; NANYUKI, Kenya It's an ``Out of Africa'' scene. The little biplane is buzzing around the ice castles of Mount Kenya. Below, zebras and gazelles jog across golden grasslands like children at play. ``This is my dream come true says Andrew Garratt. Lanky, soft-spoken Garratt, an adventurer from
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 "Sunday Tribune (South Africa)")
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Africa's crowning glory to lose ice cap.(News)
Sunday Tribune (South Africa)
; BYLINE: MALKHADIR MUHUMED NAIROBI: Africa's two highest mountains - Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya - will lose their ice cover within 25 to 50 years if deforestation and industrial pollution are not stopped, environmentalists have warned. Kilimanjaro has already lost 82% of its ice cover over 80
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Kenya by the book The beauty of `Out of Africa' is recaptured for modern travelers
The Boston Globe
; ... Blixen's time, the Masai still thought of themselves as warriors, she writes. "When the Great War first broke out, and the Masai had news of it, the blood of the old fighting tribe was all up. They had visions of splendid battles and massacres, and they saw the glory ...
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12 AMERICANS DIE IN KENYA CRASH.(News)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Byline: Bryan Mealer Associated Press MOUNT KENYA, Kenya -- A team of Kenyan investigators began probing the wreckage Monday of a chartered plane that slammed into Mount Kenya, killing three generations of an American family and two South African pilots, officials said. The twin-engine Fairchild
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Rare antelopes play again in Kenya
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; MOUNT KENYA, Kenya - Eighteen rare mountain antelope have been returned to Mount Kenya, a major step in an effort by a hunter- turned-conservationist to save the species from extinction. Don Hunt came to Kenya in 1964 as an avid hunter, but he became a conservationist when he saw the wildlife
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Equator's glaciers slip away in warmth
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; NARO MORU, Kenya - Rivers of ice at the Equator - foretold in the 2nd century, found in the 19th - are now melting away in this new century, returning to the realm of lore and fading photographs. From mile-high Naro Moru, villagers have watched year by year as the great glaciers of Mount Kenya,
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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12 Americans die when plane crashes into Mount Kenya
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; 12 Americans die when plane crashes into Mount Kenya THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 07-21-2003, Monday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B NAIROBI, Kenya - A chartered aircraft carrying three families to a game ...
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