CLIMB OF 16,000 FEET
EXPLORER ASCENDS MOUNT
KENYA
SUMMIT OF KILIMANJARO
SCALED.
CAPETOWN, Jan. 1
■George Londt, returning from an expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro, states that he reached a height of 15,000 feet and spent the night in the crater. The weather was mild throughout the climb. Grass grows at an altitude of 11,000 feet and thence there is but a weird wilderness of jagged krantzes to the crater, which is a dried up vent once leading to the interior of the mountain. Condt found a book wrapped in oilcloth, on the edge of the crater, lcit bv two German climbcis eleven years ago. After thirty hours’ rest at tlie crater, Londt scaled the summit and later made an ascent of Mount Kenya. At 16,000 feet he became snow-blind, and thence, amid swirling snow storms, natives accompanying him, lie was led to the summit and back to the altitude of 12,000 feet, where he recovered his sight. Londt, having scaled the two peaks claimed he has the right to re-name them.—Sin.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10193, 4 January 1926, Page 5
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