Show mountaineering in central africa london times kilimanjaro KilimaN jara has at lat lait been conquered connere q nere J dr A it 11 meyer why who fa IP le I 1 to reach the tile summit flu in analo a determined effort in ill october I 1 last as t and during twenty diva day 13 stay on the tile upper elopes slopes of the tile mountain mounts in ascended to the tile top of kibo four times anil anti of makenzi 11 benzi or thren time times AB As ho he patriotically puts it he ile wai able to paint the flag of germany on the highest point of german territory for such wo we munt must admit kilimanjaro to bo be in a to the new number of Ieter marni dr meyer gives a detailed account of his aernt on october t 0 b e r 2 he tio a and n d lii his s c companion f m p a ni 0 n 1 aur u r t sc h c ile r a and n 1 a n native al i v e 0 of f 1 canzani ajr a n i reached lie the saddle above abote marsales Ma reales village which left formed the base of operations the plan of ascent wa wag to mount the tile great lava rib running in a ter I 1 y direction and fank hining ng on the south the sourhea t ga glacier acier valley and from its highest pur spur t to 0 begin the scramble up lie the ice cap eap there wag as much less snow on ilia mountain ruo tain than there was in july 1887 at A if on october a 3 tile ascent began at 7 they met the first snow feet at they stood on the ridge of the mountain rib and thence began the steep a ascent cent of the creet crt Il halting alting a little every ten minutes in the ever rarifying ratifying air the they rested at half an hour at az 0 feet above them blinked and arid glimmered the icecap ice cap of the kibo shortly before 9 they attained 50 feet and add at the lower limit of the icecap ice cap at a bight hight of feet here the usual precautions as to spectacle ropes and anti axe i were taken and the work of step cut ting liggan after crossin g several crevasses cre they rested at 1220 under a steep ascent of I 1 lie ica wall at goolo feet high the curve of the icecap ice cap cal which is the tile highest point visible from below was now under tinder them the difficulty of breathing maje made thein them halt a few st s onles contla every fifty etis pi at last their strength getting rapidly lehey they reached at the rim of the kibo crater at the same time vier they saw its highest elevation to the left e t on the south fide of the mountain consisting of three rocky PO cointa fits rising some yards above tho the fee icecap ice cap tile distance they estimated at about hours march buffor cut for this their strenge ahw was as unequal except at the risk rick 0 of leaving abing to bi bivouac avouac without the least protection in the cold of the night flight they had done an extremely fatiguing eleven hours e climb limb between feet and feet and had to take account of the mid mist that was floating above the ice walls they decided to rest content with the tile result of their first ai ascent cent the great craer crater of kibo is with ith its ice tile eruption rising cone rom omits its feehs aepha was discovered tile problem of the tile interior of kit kibo 0 o a solved 0 ived the descent deacent began and arid t lie tents were readied reached at 0 48 r I 1 st on october 6 dr meyer and his tits companions started at noon to bivouac at a greater flight next morning at they were on the topmost rim of the crar crr their turning point on alie ad the ascent to the highest peak offered no ex traci binary ty the tile ice brinit steadily rises in a rout southerly herly direction where it is broken into three points emerging above tile icecap ice cap not leing being quite mite sure which maethe was alie highest they mounted all three and alie aneroid gave tile mid di clione i one 1909 feet as 60 feet to so 80 feet higher than the other two on tile thoice ice pinnacle dr bieber planted the like german hag flag and ed the rork ropic kaier wilhelm spitze 11 from ali this is point especially the great kibo crater is pas ly viewed with a diameter feet the crater sinks about feet in its bac bae oo 00 the northern and anti eastern sides ane icecap ice fee cap des descend condes es from the 11 rim ill it in steep galleries while on the western and southern sout sides the tile bare lava rock plunges pl tinges steeply from lie upper ice rim from tha base of the tile crater there rises somewhat northerly from the center a slightly arched e eruption comes cornea to about fact high like the crater bot consists of dark brown alies ai liea its upper half is free from mow and ice its lower loer half is pj panor of lied with a mighty ice giralo which ion proc proceeds cede p presumably mably as an glacier from tile broad broad crater chasm opening aning westwards west est wards warda on the crater I 1 bottom n aton lie several larger fielda of haf hal melting sec lef crust I 1 |