British troops attend a six-week training course near Mount Kenya before deploying to Afghanistan.
One early-morning buzz around snow-topped Mount Kenya later, we landed near a glacial lake for a bracing bit of fly-fishing.
Mr Leakey's last act as head of the Kenya Wildlife Service in 1998 was to prevent the government clearing swathes of Mount Kenya's forests.
In the acacia-dotted savannahs of the Solio Private Reserve, beneath the snow-capped horn of Mount Kenya, we were hoping to catch a glimpse of a solitary black or white rhino tending to its young.
However, it wasn't until October, 2010 that William asked for Catherine's hand in marriage in a remote hut in a wildlife reserve on the slopes of Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak.
Flt Lt Capps was an experienced mountaineer, having taken part in a expedition in the Indian Himalayas and led a group on an expedition that circumnavigated Mount Kenya and got to the summit of Point Lenana.
With all of us starting to feel slightly ill from the heat, humidity, and exhaust fumes, we leave the crowded villages behind not a moment too soon and head into the lush green plantation country beneath Mount Kenya.
Some 50 years later, the promise of that day still pulses through this country, on the bustling streets of Nairobi, from -- up to Mount Kenya, from the coastal shores of Mombasa to the plains of the Maasai Mara.
With her skis remounted and all of us packed into the Rover, enjoying our last cold sips of Tusker Export, we head out of town toward Mount Kenya National Park, following the dirt roads deeper and deeper into plantation country.
The best place to stay is at the nearby Solio Lodge, a 35km drive east at the base of snow-capped Mount Kenya, which organises regular day trips to the park as well as activities including horseback rides, helicopter trips and spa treatments.
North of Nairobi, for example, the lush, farm-laced hills gradually give way to the semiarid landscape of the Laikipia District, 2 million acres framed to the east by Mount Kenya, to the south by the Aberdare Mountains, and to the west by the fossil-rich Great Rift Valley.
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.
On cross-examination, Mount said it was possible but not probable that investigators who were at the Kenya bomb scene, and who also handled Odeh's clothing, could have transferred bomb residue.
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