Vivienne de Watteville
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Vivienne Florence Beatrice de Watteville was a British travel writer and adventurer, author of two books based on her experiences in East Africa in the 1920s, Out in the Blue and Speak to the Earth. S
NHMB: Grévy's zebra, spotted hyenas, and African wild dogs, collected by Bernard de Watteville, July-October 1923
NHMB: twelve-foot crocodile shot at point blank range by Bernard de Watteville on the northern Uaso Nyiro, October 1923
NHMB: lesser kudu collected by Bernard de Watteville on the Uaso Nyiro in northern Kenya, November 1923
NHMB: northern white rhinoceros, left, with artificial horn, collected by Vivienne de Watteville in north-west Uganda, December 1924; southern white rhino, right, with artificial horn
Most of the peaks on Mount Kenya have been summited. The majority of these involve rock climbing as the easiest route, although some only require a scramble or a walk. The highest peak that can be asc
Vivienne de Watteville
…Maasai, a man-eating lioness, shot by her askari. She then spent an idyllic two months (January–February 1929) based in Urumandi Hut on Mount Kenya (see Mountaineering on Mount Kenya), in the giant heather and parkland zone, some of the time with two porters and some alone, exploring the mountain and valleys, bathing naked in the…
The central peaks of Mount Kenya are volcanic plugs that have resisted glacial erosion. (Left to right: Point Thompson (4955m), Batian (5199m) and Nelion (5188m))
There are many peaks on Mount Kenya which require rock climbing.
The Gorges Valley is a major feature on the Chogoria Route.
Top of large overhanging buttress overlooking Lake Michaelson, close to Hall Tarns.