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We were climbing Mt Kenya, about 10 of us, and he had mentioned all the things that could go wrong: high altitude sickness, snow burns, frostbite, hypothermia, trench foot, diarrhoea (of course).
The guide said this experience of summiting Mt Kenya for the endangered mountain bongo would “change your life”, which felt like an exaggeration of the ability of inanimate things to influence living organisms.
Hypothermia and acute mountain sickness invisibly patrol the peak, which rises to 5,199m.
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