Part 4 Ng'iro Again

I wanted to climb another part of Ng'iro but Stephen did not. I ask my host, Stephen Cowan, who has been working in the area for twenty years, if it would be too dangerous for me to go alone. "Most of the locals went to Sifur for the circumcision ceremony so you shouldn't have to worry about thieves. As long as you don't step on a cobra or a scorpion, you should be fine. Oh, and you might meet a leopard or a cheetah anytime" 

Yeah, I should be fine...

Turns out I did survive. , I decided not to actually climb the mountain because I do not know enough about survival in this environment. "What to do if ..." I was just going for a little walk through the bush in the direction of the mountain. But the peak called, and I could not resist. But my little walk made it so that, instead of hiking up something like a path, I was climbing a nearly vertical slope, beating my way through thorn bushes. But it was fun, except for one acacia tree that tried to remove my arm. 

And (disappointingly) I met not even one cheetah...   

Really tall cliffs. The spire of rock in the center is, I would estimate, over two-hundred feet tall.

Weird looking clouds...

And weird looking tree. The wind off the mountain is so strong and constant that all the trees (except acacia) are permanently bent in the direction of it.