| William De Galbert (Paris France) |
I was recommended to Alpine Adventure Safaris by my brothers who had climbed Mt Kenya with James before. I wanted to climb Mt Kilimanjaro. I joined a group of three hikers who booked through Alpine Adventure Safaris and were going up the Machame route. |
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LAMU KENYA
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| Mount Kenya Trekking |
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Watch the sun rise from the top of Africa's highest mountains, the magical Kilimanjaro or trek to the Cradle of God and explore Mt Kenya's rugged beauty.Mt Kenya is traditionally a sacred mountain as communities living around it believed it is the dwelling place of their Gods. They would usually pray facing the mountain.There are three main trail routes to access the peaks area and several other adventure routes coming up. Mount Kenya (5199metres) is Africa's second largest mountain after Kilimanjaro(5896 metres).It has a unique topographic features of stretching valleys with some individual peaks standing on the different ridges.Its three main peaks are Batian (5199m),Nelion(5188m) and Lenana (4985m) which happens to the trekkers peak.This give it a jagged impression unlike Kilimanjaro which is just a massive dome with a big crater. Besides its location on the temperate zone of the Equator,the mountains upper section is characterised by permanent ice hanging from the terminal Morain on the different parts of the main peaks .The mountain have a wide range of flora and fauna with a systematic distribution from the Savanna level to the high elevation zones. The twin peaks Batian (5199m) and Nelion (5188m) provides solid rocks that can be climbed during the summer time periods.Both climbs happens to be challenging but can well be climbed by experienced rock climbers and alpine guides with logistic assistance from our trained rock climbing guides.Ice climbs can be done on the diamond couilor and ice window.For the hikers and trekkers as well as real mountaineers looking for beauty and solid rock climbing ,then mount Kenya got what it takes that any other mountain in the universe have to offer.Ice climbing can also be done from the south west face a long the diamond couilor and the ice window.Its also a good test and an acclamatization step for mt kilimanjaro. |