Mark Ziese September 13, 2019 Africa, Mountaineering, Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Travel The lumpy flat-top Mark Ziese September 13, 2019 Africa, Mountaineering, Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Travel The flat-top of Kilimanjaro is not really so flat. We discovered some of its features on the way to the summit.
Mark Ziese October 28, 2017 Africa, Mountaineering, Mt Kilimanjaro, Plants & Animals, Tanzania, Backcountry, Travel A stone-cold cauldron Mark Ziese October 28, 2017 Africa, Mountaineering, Mt Kilimanjaro, Plants & Animals, Tanzania, Backcountry, Travel At some point in the distant past, planetary nausea triggered a spew of subterranean chunder. The blow was horrific enough to empty a mountain of structural support, causing it to collapse into its own throat.
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.