Mountains of the Moon
A Coolamon Rotary Club Initiative
Welcome to the Official site for the Rotary Club of Coolamon Mountians of the Moon Project. Due to the unprecedented success of the Kili Project, we are doing it again!..the mysterious mists, gorillas, elephants and unique prehistoric flora of the MotM await. A unique and adventurous way to raise money for the most vulnerable children and babies in the world!
Current list of Climbers
The Gorillas and Queen Elizabeth National Park
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Loading ...Here are three videos courtesy of YouTube to whet your appetite for the adventure in 2011:
The Gorillas:
Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Some Videos of the Mountains of the Moon
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mbiwo Constantine Kusebahasa, a farmer from the Kasese District at the foothills of Rwenzori Mountains in western Uganda has noticed gradual changes in the climatic conditions of the area.
www.mitandi.com: Climbing Mt.Margherita in Rwenzori / Mountains of the Moon in Uganda
The Adventure is ON!
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We can now confirm that we will be going back to Africa and that the Mountains of the Moon adventure is definitely ON!!
Please follow this web site for information as we plan our way ahead to visit Uganda in 2011and climb the Mountains of the Moon. We will be setting the date soon. Just waiting on information from Uganda as to availability of guides, porters, safaris and the visit to the gorillas.
Mount Stanley
The Route {click on the Image for a larger view}
World AIDS Day Message from RFFA
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...December 1st 2009 is WORLD AIDS DAY and teh board of RFFA would like you to read our message to all Rotarians and those interested in helping fight AIDS in the world.
rffa-world-aids-day-2009
Rotarians For Fighting AIDS, Inc. (RFFA) shares a greeting card and an inspiring message of hope with Rotarians everywhere as we Honor World AIDS Day, December 1, 2009. These notes, pictures and paintings are sent by two groups of Kenyan school children who represent only a small fraction of the 12 million HIV/AIDS Orphans living on the continent of Africa today.
Thanks to so many of you who have supported RFFA’s work, the children who send their vision of a world free of HIV/AIDS are in school today. They are there because you gave the gift of education and hope for the future by paying for their school fees, supplies and uniforms. We want you to see and read about the world you are changing.
Did you know that even basic education is not free in Kenya? An orphan child has no way of affording any school without assistance from concerned adults like our Rotarian partners in so many countries. These children sent their thanks and their vision to all of you for your kindness and generosity. As RFFA’s Board of Directors, we are deeply grateful as well.
We invite all Rotarians to join Rotarians For Fighting AIDS, Inc., and our Founder and CEO Marion Bunch
, as we continue to help the orphans and vulnerable children of Africa achieve their dreams. Visit our website www.rffa.org for more information.
Sincerely Yours In Rotary Service,
The Board of Directors
Rotarians For Fighting AIDS, Inc.
RFFA Rotarians For Fighting AIDS
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RFFA or Rotarians For Fighting AIDS will be the major beneficiary of the Mountains of the Moon climb.
Here is a short video on why we are doing this and it is to help the most vulnerable children on this planet; like Reagan in the slums of the big African cities like Mathare in Nairobi. Reagan is an inspiration!
Reagan’s Dream
Slide Show Mountains of the Moon
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I found these wonderful photos by Hulivili from Finland enjoy the slide show just great photographjy in a beautiful place on earth: The Mountains of the Moon.
Hulivili
The boy from the Far North (Finland) who became a medical scientist, world citizen and connoisseur of the art of living. Currently living in Qatar.
I love anything artsy and/or creative - music (I sing and play guitar myself), movies and theatre, literature and especially photography.
Thank You Hulivili for sharing your work just wonderful.
From The Cape to Cairo by ES Grogan and AH Sharp 1900
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Cape to Cairo by ES Grogan and AH Sharp, around 1898 these two adventurers decided to plan a route for a railway line and telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo. They wrote a book published in 1900 by Hurst and Blackett London. On their way to Cairo they went via the Rwenzori Mountains and here from the original book are some extracts for your enjoyment.
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My Father's book Cape to Cairo
Illustration by AD McCormick
Page 200 Cape to Cairo Fascinating
If you want to read more let me know!
Mountains of the Moon More Photos
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Mt. Stanley from John Matte
These photos are courtesy of Rwenzori.com , rwenzori.com was created and is maintained by Ugandan Rwenzori enthusiasts. As such it is not an official Rwenzori National Park website. In fact, this site is not an official website of any government, conservationist, geologist, botanist, peace-loving, war-loving or other such body!
ENJOY! and JOIN US!
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- Everlasting Flower
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- Forest Mountain Stream
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- River Mubuku
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- Lower Bigo Bog
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- Mossy forest, Nyamileju
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- Mt. Speke view from Stanley
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- Glacier edge close-up
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- Stanley Plateau
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- Mt. Stanley from John Matte
Photos from The Mountains of the Moon
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Thanks go to Bishop Masereka and Alex Thembo from Kasese on the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon for the following photographs.
Bishop Masereka
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- The Foothills of the Mountains of the Moon
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- Mountains of the Moon Foot Hills
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- Locals
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- Stunning
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- Beautiful
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- The Mountains of the Moon
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- Snow on the Equator
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- The Bishop's Clinic why we are going!
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- Bishop Masereka
Claudius Ptolemy
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Claudius Ptolemy
He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer. He lived in Egypt under the Roman Empire, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the Thebaid. He died in Alexandria around AD 168.
In AD150, the Alexandrine geographer Ptolemy wrote of a snow capped mountain range, deep in the heart of Africa that, he claimed, was the source of the Nile and which he called the Mountains of the Moon. Over the centuries this curious notion of tropical snow faded into mythology and, when John Speke found the Nile’s exit from Lake Victoria, a place in fiction for the Mountains of the Moon seemed assured. But then, in 1889, Henry Stanley emerged from central Africa to announce that such a mountain did exist. He mapped it by its local name of Rwenjura - or ‘rainmaker’.
In due course mountaineers explored Ptolemy’s Mountains of the Moon. Though just miles north of the Equator, they found in the high Rwenzori glaciers and snow peaks whose meltwaters represent the highest springs ofthe Nile. These trickle downwards into U-shaped glacial valleys where, supplemented by up to 2500mm of rain/year, they saturate the broad valley floors to form great soggy bogs. Within these rain and mist filled troughs, loom specimens of Africa’s bizarre high altitude vegetation and stunted trees enveloped by colourful mosses and draped with beards of lichen.
JOIN US IN JANUARY 2011 TO EXPLORE AND CLIMB THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON FOR THE CHILDREN OF AFRICA.
We are now planning the adventure and if you are interested please contact me on 61 2 6927 6027 or within Australia (02) 6927 6027 or email:
John Glassford <john@glassford.com.au>
We will have two teams going one to climb and the other as our supporters or better known as the Gin and Tonic Team. We are also planning visits to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and the gorillas or the chimpanzees at the Kibale Forest as well as a visit to the Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Tucker Time
Cheeky Chap