Batian and Nelion

Mount Kenya has two peaks; Batian at 1,199m and Nelion at 5,188m. When climbing up from Pt. Lenana (the route we took) you climb Nelion first and then have to abseil into the notch between the two before climbing Batian. Here’s Dan abseiling down. I clearly remember this section; I had kept my rubber climbing shoes on, and moving along the knife edge ridge between the two peaks, sometimes on snow, unroped, was terrifying – even though it can’t have been much more than 5 metres.