Imagine Mount Kilimanjaro without a snow capped peak

Just a couple of days ago, India eNews.com published an article about Africa’s melting glaciers a warning sign for climatic change. It says: Over the past 100 years, the glaciers on Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak in Tanzania, have been melting away at an impressive rate, and scientists say the glaciers could [...]

Why do people want to go trekking?

Actually, sometimes I ask myself – why do I (and many others I have met along the way) love so much to go trekking, torturing ourselves having terrible headaches, having to cook and eat our own food, suffering from strained muscles, instead of relaxing ourselves on a beach resort, watching bikini babes run along, sipping [...]

Good practices to preserve purity of water

If you have ever been to Berkelah waterfalls, you will find that the campsite stinks – there is a huge pile of human rubbish there! Really. Imagine setting up your tent next to a pile of rubbish. Doesn’t sound nice right? It is every trekker’s responsibility to keep the areas we trek clean. Simply by [...]