Cameron’s Journey: Gorilla Encounters & Rwenzori Peaks
Thank you for your message, I arrived back to Australia about a week ago but Phuong is still continuing her African adventure and is currently on Safari in Kenya. Gorilla Safari Excellent from start to finish, our driver was friendly and informative and allowed us to stop along the way to check out animals such as elephants, buffalo and baboons. The lodge was fantastic, very spacious and well stocked with everything we could possibly need, […]
Incredible Journey Up The Mountains Of The Moon
Adventurer Holly Budge – Everest summiteer, conservationist and the first woman to skydive Everest – takes on the climb to the top of Margherita Peak in the Rwenzori Mountains to raise funds to stop elephant poaching HOLLY BUDGE ‘Mountains of the Moon’ sounds like something out of a fairy tale, but the magic unfolded right in front of my eyes on a recent climbing trip to the Rwenzoris in Uganda. Balanced on the spine of […]
For Uganda’s Vanishing Glaciers, Time Is Running Out
A trek through tropical forest, mud fields, and scree reveals the last remnants of the once-sprawling ice fields in Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains. Their loss has profound implications for local communities, uniquely adapted species, and scientists studying the climate record. JOHN WENDLE Enock Bwambale stopped at the lip of the dying glacier, its blunted nose arcing steeply down to scoured rocks, then shouted up to his fellow guide Uziah Kule that the ice was too sheer […]