With a new introduction by Rick, who has, since writing this book, returned to Kenya to repeat part of the original walk For all the many people/adventurers who dare climb Kilimanjaro

This is a remarkable account of a thrilling journey on foot from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to the Indian Ocean. Rick Ridgeway, one of the world's foremost mountaineers and adventurers, offers us a rare view of East Africa as it is today, and how it once was before the incursion of European civilisation, before the balance of its primal wilderness was destroyed.