Mount Nyiragongo – what an adventure!

Still pretty blown away from our amazing encounters with the gorillas in Virunga National Park we had one more adventure planned during our trip to the DRC.  We arranged to climb the eleven thousand foot Mount Nyiragongo; a VERY active volcano near Lake Kivu. I don’t use ‘very active’ lightly – we live near the Rift Valley and are…

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The Western Breach; rock fall and continuing safety on African Environments preferred route.

The Western Breach route on Kilimanjaro is the most stunning, most direct and least scree covered ascent route on the mountain.  It is the only ascent that takes you directly onto the crater floor, next to what little still remains of the beautiful glacial ice, and positions you for the shortest and easiest possible ascent to the inner crater…

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