In the summer of 1999, Peter Doran wrote to me in Canada at
WhiteRabbit.Net to let me know that nearly fifty years ago we had lived along the same
road in Kiambu, Kenya, and thus shared our childs eye views of the times popularly
known as Mau Mau. Peter, who now lives in Wokingham, England, returned to East
Africa with his wife, Jane, in 1998, and again in 1999, to climb Africa's highest
mountains, Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya, for "winter exercise." In response to
the interest I expressed about his climb up Mt. Kenya, Peter generously sent me a
copy of his climbing journal. This I so enjoyed reading, that I offered to convert the
journal into a form suitable for publication on the World Wide Web if Peter would select
and supply digital copies of the numerous photographs he had taken on the trek. Our
collaboration on this project is well underway; the full illustrated climbing journal will
be available in late 1999.
Mary Lynn Richardson
1 November 1999
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