Route guide
What to expect on the Entoto sunrise ridge
A 5:30am start, 480 metres of climbing and the best twenty minutes of light you will see all week. Here is exactly how t...
Trail journal
Route notes and kit lists.
What each hike is actually like, written by the people who lead it.
Expedition
Two days on the Simien escarpment
Geladas, a 500-metre drop and a night at 3,600 metres. Our longest trip, and the one people book a year ahead.
Route guide
Menagesha: walking through a 500-year-old forest
Menagesha Suba was planted in the fifteenth century under Emperor Zara Yaqob, which makes it the oldest managed forest i...
Route guide
Down into Wenchi: the crater, the lake and the island
A volcanic caldera with a lake in the bottom, hot springs at the shore and a monastery on the island. The walk down is e...
Kit
A kit list that actually fits in a day pack
After a few hundred guided days we have watched people carry far too much and occasionally far too little. This is the l...
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