Climbing Travel Trekking
Climbing Kilimanjaro: Where Attitude is Altitude
“I know that I must do what’s right. Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.”
– From the song “Africa” by Toto
I must’ve heard this line and this…
“I know that I must do what’s right. Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.”
– From the song “Africa” by Toto
I must’ve heard this line and this…
11 days of high-altitude acclimatization (Leh-Markha Valley-Stok Base Camp) crossing some 5000 m passes, sleeping in subzero temperatures in the tent, experiencing wolves attack at the base camp, getting…
Prologue
AMS – Acute Mountain Sickness
HACE – High Altitude Cerebral Edema
HAPE – High Altitude Pulmonary Edema
The briefing was in progress. The dal bhat (lentil soup with rice) routine (for every…
“I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us. The war is over for me now, but it…
Circa 13 BCE: Somewhere in the present day South China Sea near the Mekong Delta.
2 out 3 ships that left the shores of the present day Kanyakumari, India towards…