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  • More Woolly Tops pix
    I’ve received a CD of photos and videos taken by Josh and Paul of our Woolly Tops expedition.  Some of them show the waterlogged second day of our trip.  Many wonderful ones to choose from—here are a few.
  • Heart of starkness
    “To the negation of the habitual, which is safe, there is added the affirmation of the unusual, which is dangerous.” —Joseph Conrad, “An Outpost of Progress” Conrad understood those two distinct, neatly joined facets of a European man’s deterioration in central Africa.  All that was comfortable melted away; all that was al […]
  • The fortress of Woolly Tops
    Thanks to Peter for sharing a CD of  photos after  my camera was ruined in a stream.  I have also added some photos from Josh and Paul in a separate post here. Woolly Tops is a fortress of solid stone sheathed in a mat of snarled vegetation.  On its north side it rises 3500 [...]