Canadian Mitumba

"Mountains in Photos" are amateur and professional photographs of mountains, ascents, hikes. Regular updates. Adventurers were looking for them in order to take possession of the famous mines of King Solomon, hidden here in the caves. Several well-organized expeditions have failed. And this is not surprising: the Moon Mountains are always covered with clouds, because their other name is Rwenzori, which in the language of the Bakonjo tribe living here means "creator of rain". Until 1888 these mountains were not seen by any European. Henry Morton Stanley twice passed very close, but only on the third attempt he saw them. In his honor, the highest mountain, Rwenzori, was named Mount Stanley. Only in the 20th century, an Italian expedition led by the Duke of Abruzzi managed to draw up the first map of these places. The Duke gave the highest peak the name Margherita, in honor of Queen Savoie. Our UN helicopter pilots flying from Uganda to Congo affectionately call Mount Daisy. The Lunar Mountains are indeed on the equator, between La Canadian Mitumba kes Edward and Albert, on the border between Uganda and Congo (Zaire). Here is the largest glaciation in Africa, and Marigold (5109 m) on the entire continent is second only to the height of volcanic origin in the lonely mountains of Kilimanjaro and Kenya. The idea to visit the Mountains of the Moon came to me immediately after returning from Kilimanjaro. But Joseph, my friend's guide from Tanzania, strongly discouraged me from doing this. It was very restless in the mountains. Particularly alarming were reports from the western part of the Moon Mountains, located in the territory of the Congo (Zaire). The British newspaper The Guardian reported that "the practice of cannibalism has recovered throughout eastern Congo ... Much of the jungle-covered region is controlled by the Mayi-Mayi, militias from various tribes united by dark beliefs and a taste for human flesh." And in the eastern part of the Moon Mountains it was not much quieter. The murder in 1999 of a group of tourists in the impenetrable forest of Bwindi, perhaps the most protected forest area in Uganda, home to an endangered species of mountain gorillas, was widely publicized. In 2002, Joseph also wrote to me about the abduction of a group of climbers heading for Marguerite Peak. But everything is coming to an end, and although war is still raging in the Congo, the situation has improved in the Ugandan side of the Moon Mountains. It was possible to put things in order here, and in 2004 groups of tourists flocked to the area. The first from the CIS countries to climb to the top of Mount Stanley were two Odessans from the team of Vitaly Tomchik. But there were no Russians on Margaritka yet. And in January 2005, our team of five Muscovites (my wife Irina and I, my friend Ilya Pyatnov and his two adult children - students Anya and Petya) flew from Moscow on an Emirates plane. In Dubai, we had to transfer to a flight to the Ugandan airport in Entebbe. There was a slightly cheaper, but longer option for a Cairo flight (Moscow - Cairo - Nairobi) and then a regular bus to the capital of Uganda, Kampala. This option was chosen by another part of our group of three people (Anya, Oleg and Vadim), led by the Moscow hitchhiker Vadim Dolzhansky. He already tried to get to the Lunar Mountains in 1997, but was stopped by the cordons of the UN troops, and now he was eager to take revenge. Before the trip, I followed the situation in Uganda on the Internet for a long time. The President of the country several times announced the end of the civil war. But the media continued to report clashes in the north of the country, along the border with Sudan. We had to be 8 days in an uninhabited area, in the jungle, without communication, and this was a little disturbing. Therefore, we decided to rent a satellite phone in Moscow so that, if necessary, we could contact our embassy in Kampala. On the evening of January 27, our team gathered on the outskirts of Kampala in a small hostel "Backpackers" which is very popular among free travelers. With the organization of the ascent, there were many incomprehensible things, and we decided to rely only on our own strength, we brought food and equipment from Moscow, we bought camping gas in Nairobi and Kampala. The capital of Uganda is a big city. There are modern buildings in the center. Very crowded, traffic jams, many people with weapons. The people are friendly and no one bothers on the streets trying to beg for so https://jiji.co.ke/gikomba/clothing/canadian-mitumba-93SMKQnLkUh6Ss5hZYdG1u7E.html