Lake Naivasha to Langata

" I must go dart an elephant," Iain Douglas-Hamilton said upon our arrival at Sirocco House on Sunday. Wearing a dapper white suit, he left the live concert his wife Oria had arranged at their Lake Naivasha home, and a few minutes later buzzed over our heads as he departed for Samburu. Alan Root has been assisting this conservation effort with his copter, which led to the establishment of the Lone Eagle Conservation project.

Another way to help elephants in Africa is to contribute to Cynthia Moss' effort at www.elephanttrust.org Look for a special climb up Kilimanjaro to benefit the elephants. Climbers need to secure a corporate or private sponsor to pay $19,432 (a dollar for every foot of the mountain.) The climb begins on the Kenya side of the mountain, where Moss has worked for decades on the Amboseli Elephant Research Project. According to Cynthia, who I visited at her home in Langata, the climb is being planned by mountaineer Iain Allen, profiled in Rick Ridgeway's book The Shadow of Kilimanjaro : On Foot Across East Africa