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    Mar 16, 2020 2 minutes

    KILI AND MOUNT KENYA, SOME 60 YEARS AGO

    I AN LOCKHART from Fish Hoek writes: I was a young man of 22 when my friend David Blaxall and I decided to climb Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro (5 895 m), during our annual leave in 1956. At that stage I was living in Kericho, Kenya, and working as an assistant manager on a tea plantation.

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