Mark Ziese October 11, 2017 Africa, Travel, Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Mountaineering, Backcountry On the shira Mark Ziese October 11, 2017 Africa, Travel, Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Mountaineering, Backcountry We trudged up one more rise. At the crest, the landscape flattened. It was the collapsed floor of an ancient volcano.