Mountains of the Moon - A Talk by Professor Bob Baigrie
Wed Sep 20, 19:00 - Wed Sep 20, 21:30
The Mitre Lounge
ABOUT
Conquering The Mountains of the Moon-then and now. Rwenzores, Uganda
Bob Baigrie and three friends took on the challenge in July 2023 - an eight-day ascent to one of the world’s least commonly climbed summits, Margherita Peak with Africa’s largest remaining glaciers.
There followed a pilgrimage to find the sources of the White Nile, the remote location of Ernest Hemingway’s disastrous plane crash at Murchison falls and finally, a gorilla, chimp, and birding odyssey through Uganda, justifiably named The pearl of Africa.
This slide and video presentation tells these stories as well as their own eight-day trek through the stunning vegetative zones and bogs in Wellington boots, and then the glaciered summit in crampons.
About Bob
He retired in 2022 having returned to Cape Town from the UK and Australia in 1996. His academic career in abdominal surgery spanned the dramatic transition from open to laparoscopic/keyhole surgery.