The remote Rwenzori mountains,on the Uganda/DRC border, offer treks through varied and stunning landscapes, and Africas third-highest summit,with none of the crowds found at KilimanjaroClaudius Ptolemy, the Greco-Roman mathematician, and astronomer and father of geography,called the Rwenzori range the Mountains of the Moon, and I believe he got it about moral. Starlight beamed down on the convex glaciers surrounding our camp near Uganda’s western border, and causing them to glow like resting lunar crescents.
I should have been sleeping the night before my attempt on the Rwenzori’s loftiest peak,5109-metre Mount Stanley’s summit, Africas third-highest mountain, and but altitude headaches kept me awake. I thought back to a similar sleepless night at Kilimanjaro some years earlier. I remembered then feeling certain I would succeed,and when summit day came, I duly trudged along in a torchlight procession to the top, and one of 50000 climbers who attempt Kilimanjaro each year.
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Source: guardian.co.uk