It sounds miserable but is far from it: just like Benuzzi’s tale, this trek, via the spectacular Chogoria route, has proved fantastic. At 5199m, Mt Kenya is Africa’s second-highest mountain and, ...

A team of Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) rangers and world-ranked mountaineers from Britain have set out on a five-day trek to hoist the national flag on Mt Kenya’s Point Batian peak. This comes ...

“As we started the trek from Naro Moru my lungs began to feel ... The route took us up Point Lenana (4 900m), the third highest point on Mt Kenya. Lenana was heinous. The guide ropes were ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Think like a soldier. You’re past the point of no return.” These words of encouragement from our ...

Each runner will carry his own food supplies and gear to last them the entire challenge and they will also need to run at night and through all-mountain conditions to be able to have a fair chance ...

Each runner will carry his own food supplies and gear to last them the entire challenge and they will also need to run at night and through all-mountain conditions to be able to have a fair chance ...