Elie Mundima

Category: Back Then | Date: May 02 2007 | By: admin

After writing Monday’s post on the rehabilitation work that’s taking place on the Rwenzori trail, my thoughts turned to the past and of the time I climbed the trail with my friend Charles Gahuma.

This was back in 1991 before the war, with me on the left and Charles on the right. Sadly Charles died in a traffic accident with his uncle, who was the first Director of ICCN and named Kabirizi, and is from where the Kabirizi Silverback gets his name. The photo was taken at Muhango, which is the second gite as you climb the Rwenzori trail.

I want to share with you another photo, also taken in 1991, where you can see a group of us on Plateau Stanley in the Rwenzori mountains.

This was part of our training which was funded by the EU, or the EEC as it was then. On the far left is the man who is now the accountant at Mutsora, with me next to him, and on the far right is Shyaira and also present is the Chef of Mutsora, Monsieur Clause. Apart from the man in yellow,who is no longer with us, and the white man who was there to train us, we are all still guards and rangers here in Virunga.

Technorati : Congo, ICCN, Kabirizi, Mutsora, Rwenzori, Virunga, WildlifeDirect