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Strength and endurance up Mt Elgon

The climb passes through a series of rough vegetation zones. Though a physically exhausting venture, its cool heights offer respite for people from the hot plains. Ferdinand Mwongela was there recently

Rising from the jungles bordering Uganda, Mt Elgon is an impressively craggy extinct volcano. I had been told this remote area makes for interesting trekking through deep forest and across moorlands and I was here to find out.

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