SNOW ON THE EQUATOR By H. W. Tilman
The author of this book (Bell, I2S. 6d.) is a well-known climber. He was one of the two climbers to reach the summit of Nanda Devi last year, and is to lead the next Everest expedition. Here he gives an account of his earlier life and adventures in Africa. He settled in Kenya, and when he was not bur turning his square mile of jungle into a coffee and flax plantation he shot big game and climbed mountains. With his friend Eric Shipman he made the ascents of Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and Ruwenzori. His account of these expeditions is simple and lively, but has no particular distinction. The last part of the book tells how he cycled from Uganda to Duala on the west coast, a journey of some 3,000 miles through the jungles of the Congo and French Equatorial Africa. This might have been more amusing. But, original and courageous though the enterprise was, the doggedness developed by long- distance cycling infects the writer and eventually tires the reader.
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