Ulrike Koltermann ventures off the beaten track to scale Tanzania's second-highest peak.

Jim Eagles delights in life on the edge of a Himalayan precipice and gets the cold shoulder from a couple of locals.

At 4566m, Mt Meru ranks as the fifth-highest mountain in Africa, but is climbed by only a few hundred, rather than a few thousand, people a year.

The cover of my grandfather's photo album creaks when you open it, like an arthritic joint, worn after 70 years of reminiscing.