Mountains of the moon

The Spectator | January 26, 2002| | Copyright

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Septuagenarian Tom Stacey pits himself against the glaciers of the Equator

THE other day, when it was still summer in Kensington, I was gripped by a compulsion to climb to the snows of the Mountains of the Moon. Such a compulsion was unusual and, I sensed immediately, a little sinister in someone over 70. It was a compulsion to engage in eternity-challenge: i.e., to sidle up to God and mutter, `This is me. You'll take me now?'

The snows I refer to lie almost exactly on the Equator. That places them in the middle of Africa, astride the inaccessible border of the Congo and Uganda. The ...

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