The San Francisco Chronicle’s James Temple, who ordinarily spends his time on the paper’s business desk, recently embarked up the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro and felt inspired to share his stories in the paper’s Bad Latitude travel section. He’ll be updating with new posts over the coming days; check out his first five installments under the title, The Call of Kilimanjaro.

Of course, Temple dutifully did his research, and he quotes from Hemingway’s Snows of Kilimanjaro as well as musings from George Mallory and more. While the experienced mountaineer may find Temple’s personal journey a bit smooth around the edges (there isn’t much in it about what was really going on in his head, and as we know, Kilimanjaro is a head game more than anything), it at least spells out the general outline of what a novice can expect, and well worth the time to follow as he narrates his way to the summit.

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