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David Muigai piles rope at a belay on Shipton's Notch, 17,000 feet abover sea level on Mount Kenya. Published in Alpinist Magazine.

Clouds surge over the crater of Mount Meru, an ancient stratovolcano in Tanzania.

The sun sets over two men walking the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.

An elephant traverses Tsavo National Park, walking in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro

Akech, a Sudanese refugee, poses in the dusty alleyways of the Kakuma refugee camp.

A climber floats through a boulder problem in Rocktown, Georgia.

Steven Masaga stands in the Oehler Gully on Mawenzi, a subsidiary peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. Published in Alpinist Magazine.

A village of the Turkana tribe hide from the unrelenting noonday heat of desertous northern Kenya.

A student helps his crewmate down a steep trail in Pisgah National Forest on an expedition with the North Carolina Outward Bound School.

Dusk encroaches the far perimeter of the rugged Ndoto Mountains in central Kenya.

Boys play football on a dirt pitch on the outskirts of Kakuma refugee camp.

A night on safari in the Great Rift Valley.

Climbers summit Mawenzi Peak, the fourth highest point in Africa, little-known and rarely climbed in the shadow of Kilimanjaro.

Inmates preach to each other in the chapel of the maximum security Kamiti prison outside of Nairobi, Kenya.

An African pitstop: duct-tape, a rock, and a little ingenuity.

Porters carry loads to a camp high on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak.

Outward Bound students float the Ocklawaha river of central Florida at dusk.

Hussein Saidi, a guide on Kilimanjaro, on his victory slide down the scree-slopes of Kibo Crater after another successful summit.

Relaxing in the mangrove swamps near Lamu Island on the Swahili Coast of Kenya.

Samuel, a porter on Kilimanjaro, poses in the thick of clouds at 15,000 feet.

Dhows sail home to Lamu Island from the surrounding coastline at dusk.

The "Kilimanjaro daisy," a hardy flower that can grow up to 14,000 feet above sea level and provides striking golden contrast the the high greys of the mountain.

A Kilimanjaro porter takes a smoke break near the Machame camp, with the Shira plateau behind him.

Tom, a game ranger with the Kenya Wildlife Service, stands over the remote moorlands of the Aberdares range.

James Kagambi, a veteran Kenyan mountaineer and educator, takes a break in the moors near Horombo, on Kilimanjaro.

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