THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MIST
I’d been invited to try out the Vumba Trail in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe and didn’t need a second invitation to escape from cash- and fuel-starved Harare. But the second day of our four-day trek through the fabled ‘Mountains of the Mist’ was harder than I’d anticipated as we crossed over Blue Swallow Ridge in baking October heat.
Day one had been hot too, but we’d
