From the heights of Mount Kilimanjaro to the depths of revealing sexual abuses as a child, the 2012 season has indeed been a spiritual and cathartic year for R.

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The reason behind the melting of Mount Kilimanjaro's snows is an example of this.

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Like most plane safaris, it soars back into civilisation at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, from where Hemingway was air-lifted to Nairobi after contracting dysentery in January 1934.

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What about the shrinking of the snows on Mount Kilimanjaro?

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From the 16, 000-foot summit of Point Lenana, one of three peaks that comprise the Mount Kenya massif, we can see Kilimanjaro's shiny white dome rising to the south, the blue of the Indian Ocean lying to the east, and a lush green canopy of jungle spreading to the north.

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With other Explorers Club members, Bennett has traveled to Hawaii to study humpback whales, to Madagascar to catalog the island's flora and fauna, to Mount Kilimanjaro for a bit of bioprospecting, and to Easter Island for an archeology project.

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