Articles tagged ‘Pictures’
Picture of the week 48
By Ed | November 28th, 2007 |
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This photograph has always intrigued me because of the primary colors (red, yellow & blue) with the morning moon and the Rebman Glacier peaking along the horizon.
We are half way down the scree slide as I looked back up the slope to capture this image. Running down the scree enabled us to get from the [...]
Picture of the week 47
By Ed | November 26th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The stroll from the spot of the week 46 photo to the summit sign was maybe 150 yards. My son and I covered that distance, arm & arm, as I fondly recall and you would have thought we would be feeing triumphant, but the core feeling we experienced was one of over-powering relief.
We knew we [...]
Picture of the week 46
By Ed | November 12th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
One of the fellows at BootsnAll sent me some photographs taken by a friend.
I have included one of his images this week because it was the shot I couldn’t take. My camera stopped working and, at 19,000+ feet, I did not possess the cognitive resources to render the simple fix it until we entered the [...]
Picture of the week 45
By Ed | November 5th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Pictured here, taken from inside our tent, is our waiter August at Crater Camp announcing that our dinner was ready in the mess tent. Behind him are the beautifully iconic Furtwrangler Glacier and one of the cinder cones protecting the Reusch Crater.
As I’ve shared in other posts this year, the long shadows and stunning topography is [...]
Picture of the week 44
By Ed | October 29th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Climatic truths are rendering the glaciers atop Mt. Kilimanjaro smaller by the day. This process has been unfolding for hundreds of years, yes, even before “global warming”. Although I think “man” could be a wiser steward of the planet, I’m of the opinion this ice was going to melt, in time, but also, in time, [...]
Picture of the week 43
By Ed | October 22nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Pictured here is the Furtwrangler Glacier which we could walk right up to and touch. The breath saving stroll from the crater rim to Crater Camp is all down hill. past the massive 40 to 50 foot walls of ice that have been standing there for thousands of years.
The Furtwrangler Glacier is shrinking from [...]
Picture of the week 42
By Ed | October 15th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
This view of the Reusch Crater is hidden from Kilimanjaro summiteers by gigantic cinder cones. The only way to see this is to include an over-night stay at Crater Camp, walk up the cinder cones and look in. Less than 5 % of the annual trekkers do this.
The majority attempts the climb during the night [...]
Picture of the week 41
By Ed | October 8th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
While exploring the surroundings on the crater floor the clouds were rolling past, at our level, like gigantic puffs of cotton. I’d never seen anything quite like it.
Picture of the week 40
By Ed | October 1st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
I took this minimalist image as we moved slowly across the raising snow slope from the top of the Breach to the rim of the cinder cones protecting the Reusch Crater.
Picture of the week 39
By Ed | September 24th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Kilimanjaro is not known for summit plumes but there it was nonetheless.
Unlike the Himalayan giants, this was not warm monsoon air condensing to ice crystals. Kili was sucking the clouds up the Western Breach from behind us and playfully throwing them off the summit ridge with the same nonchalance used when flicking a bug off your sleeve, [...]
