The ITFC team has descended from setting up the GLORIA plots on the Rwenzori Mountains! We expect them back at the station later today.

WCS’ Anton Seimon, who trained the team came back a few days earlier and send us some pictures. We share them here with you, as the beauty of this place is really stunning. But some suffering was unavoidable: they had it tough, with days of snow fall, wet feet after walking through the bogs and worries about one of the porters who fell sick and had to be rescued from above 4000 m.a.s.l.

Here is a glimps of where they were and what they saw (courtesy Anton):

And last but not least; what is left over of the glaciers on Rwenzori’s tops…

Soon more from their experience up there in the ‘abode of the little gods’,

Miriam