Tanzania 1999

Visit to Tanzania from Saturday 28th August 1999 to Friday 10th September for IPCC WG1 TAR Lead Authors' Meeting in Arusha. After the meeting a group of us went to Mt Kilimanjaro by the Marangu route.

Images are © Jonathan Gregory 1999.

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07-37 View from the hotel in Arusha
Ngorongoro Crater, Monday 30th
06-02 06-08 Hippopotamus 06-06 Zebra
06-07 Pelican 06-10 06-12 Wildebeest (gnu)
06-13 06-16 Acacias and elephant
Marangu Gate to Mandara huts (2720 m), in montane forest, Saturday 4th
06-18 Dave Griggs at the gate 06-20 Rainforest
06-24 Giant heather Erica arborea
Mandara huts to Horombo huts (3720 m), in heathland, Sunday 5th
06-25 Mandara huts 06-28 Jens Christensen and Philippe Huybrechts
06-29
Day-trip from Horombo huts to the Saddle and back, Monday 6th
06-34 Cath Senior, Richard Wood, Richard Jones, Sean Milton, Dave Griggs at Horombo huts 06-36 Red-hot poker
07-01 Senecios 07-02 Philippe and Jens
07-03 Zebra rock
Horombo huts to Kibo huts (4703 m), in desert, Tuesday 7th
07-04 07-05 07-09 Views towards Kibo, the main summit
07-10 07-11
07-12 Helichrysum citrispinum (white) and H. cymosum (yellow) 07-13 Mawenzi summit
07-14 07-15 Kibo summit 07-16 Mawenzi summit, from near Kibo huts
Kibo huts to Uhuru peak (5895 m) and back down to Horombo huts, Wednesday 8th
We were in darkness until we left Gillman's point (5681 m), at the edge of the crater.
07-17 Looking back towards Mawenzi 07-18 Looking forward towards Uhuru; the ice formations are called penitentes
07-19 07-20 07-24 Southern icefield
07-21 On the summit
07-22 07-23 View across the crater towards the northern icefield
07-26 Back at Gillman's point 07-25 Mawenzi summit seen from Gillman's point
Horombo huts to Marangu gate, Thursday 9th
07-27 Sarah Raper and Philippe Huybrechts at Horombo huts 07-29 Our guides, Meckson on the R, at Horombo huts
07-31 Dave Griggs, Cath Senior and John Mitchell 07-32 Kibo summit
07-34 Richard Wood, Richard Jones, Cath Senior, Sean Milton, John Mitchell's son Ewan, Philippe Huybrechts
At the Lead Author meeting
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