CLIMBED TWO PEAKS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 January 1926, Page 7

CLIMBED TWO PEAKS.

SOUTH AFRICAN MOUNTAINS. « LONDT’S EXP'ER/I ENOES, BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Jan. 2, 11.40 a.m. CAPETOWN, Jan. 1. George Londt ha<s returned from an expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro. He states that he reached the height, of fifteen thousand feet and spent a night in -the crater. The weather was mild throughout the climb. Grass grows to an altitude of eleven thousand feet. From then on there was a. weird wilderness of jagged krantzes to the crater, which he found was dried up. Air. Londt found a book wrapped in oilcloth on the edge of the crater. It was left by two German climbers eleven years ago. After thirty hours' rest at the crater Londt scaled the summit. He later made an ascent of Mount Kenya. At 16,000 feet he became snow blind. Thence amid swirling snow-storms the natives accompanying him led him to the sumimit and back to an altitude of twelve thousand feet, where he recovered his -sight. Air. Londt, having scaled the two peaks, claimed that- lie has the right to re-name thorn. — Sydney Sun Cable.

Kilimanjaro is an isolated mountain mass in Tanganyika Territory, consisting of two. extinct volcanic peaks, connected by a broad and massive ridge. It is situated within the former German East African territory. The- highest point is 19,325 feet and the crater is about 650 feet in depth. The summits are covered with glaciers and snow.

Mount Kenya is an isolated snowcapped mountain in Kenya Colony, Bast Africa. It is 17,040 feet.high and 1 has 15 glaciers. It aa-us discovered in 1847. The middle of the massif, 350 square miles, is an alpine region, the north plateau of Avhicih is suitable lor settlement. Outward from this the gentle slopes from 12,000 doAvn to 5000 feet are" almost entirely forest.