Travels, adventures and family …
Taken from the top of an unknown climb of Rob, moving very elegantly and calmy (as usual) up a crack line. Dan belaying, Tommy watching on. It’s an awesome place to climb – the slate is clean, the lines are aesthetic and the place has a powerful sense of history. Dinorwic, North Wales.
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.
Dan and I with the peak of Mt. Kenya in the background. Mount Kenya is the second highest peak in Africa, at 5,199 m (17,057 ft). We’d spent about 4 days climbing up the eastern flanks to acclimatise, and this was taken the day before our summit climb. It was cooooold at night!
Dan looking back up at Point John. The main peaks of Batian and Nelion are hidden up behind, in the cloud. It looks like another planet!
Road and Ocean 