7 mountainous places to escape to for Christmas

December 14, 2011 Opinion and advice aconcagua, andes, antisana, argentina, cayambe, chimborazo, colombia, cordillera neovolcanica, cotopaxi, ecuador, ethiopia, iztaccihuatl, kilimanjaro, lonely planet, mexico, mount baker, mount speke, mount stanley, nevado de toluca, pico de orizaba, popocatepetl, ritacuba blanco, rwenzori mountains, sierra nevada del cocuy, simien mountains, tanzania, uganda, volcanoes 4 Comments

7 mountainous places to escape to for Christmas

This post is for people who love the outdoors and find Christmas a tedious bore. I know there must be some of you out there, and those of you who love it, look away now. Over the years I’ve found

Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains: great trekking, unusual wildlife, and a summit

December 7, 2011 Opinion and advice amharas, ethiopia, ethiopian wolf, gelada baboon, geology, giant lobelia, lammergeier, ras dashen, rosita forbes, simien mountains, thick-billed raven, trekking, walia ibex, wildlife, wildlife photographer of the year 4 Comments

Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains: great trekking, unusual wildlife, and a summit

“The most marvellous of all Abyssinian landscapes opened before us, as we looked across a gorge that was clouded amethyst to the peaks of Simyen.” Rosita Forbes, From Red Sea to Blue Nile – A Thousand Miles of Ethiopia (1925)