Mulanje Mountain Tours

Photographs

On the mountain

All taken on Mulanje. Nothing here is stock photography.

A dirt trail leads towards a steep granite peak on Mount Mulanje, with cloud spilling over the ridge and young pines on either side.
A guide with a backpack walks a dirt path towards the Mulanje massif under tall cumulus cloud.
A guide pauses on a hillside path and looks out across the ridges of the Mulanje massif.
A lone figure sits on a rocky plateau watching the sun set over the plain far below.
A hiker stands at the edge of the plateau looking out over haze, with a second walker in the foreground.
The silhouette of the Mulanje massif at dusk, seen from under the roof of a mountain hut.
The sun rises over a rocky ridge on the plateau, backlighting tussock grass.
Two walkers come down a dirt track with a granite ridge rising behind them.
Two hikers with trekking poles climb a steep eroded trail high on the mountain.
Two hikers stand on an open slope, dwarfed by the plateau and its footpath behind them.
Two walkers on a grassy plateau path with the pale granite massif and drifting smoke behind.
Two walkers cross lichen-covered slabs on the plateau in the last light.
A small group walks a plateau path through tall grass and flowering shrubs.
Walkers pick their way down a rocky slope as cloud closes in across the valley.
Three visitors sit at a patterned tablecloth outside a timber mountain hut with mugs and bowls of breakfast.
A large overhanging boulder juts from a ridge above a smooth granite slab.
The plain far below seen from the mountain, with a rock buttress on the right and miombo woodland in front.
Cloud pours over the massif ridge above burnt grassland and bare trees.
A rainbow over the Mulanje massif seen across the bright green rows of Chitakale tea plantation, with rain cloud behind.
Chitakale tea plantation
Edgison Chimowa smiling, crouched on a boulder in a garden of mango and banana trees, with the Mulanje massif rising behind him.
Edgison Chimowa
Dziwe la Nkhalamba — a waterfall dropping down a granite slab into a deep green pool ringed by forest.
Dziwe la Nkhalamba
Walkers on the boulders at the summit of Sapitwa Peak beside the summit marker, under a clear blue sky.
Sapitwa Peak
A walker with a backpack scrambling up a lichen-covered granite slab on the way to Sapitwa Peak.
On the way to Sapitwa
Tents pitched on sand beside Malosa pool on the Mulanje plateau, with the massif behind in evening light.
Malosa pool
Sunrise seen from the top of Sapitwa Peak, the summit marker silhouetted against an orange horizon above the cloud.
Sunrise from Sapitwa
A group of walkers framed in the tall arched mouth of a cave near Sapitwa Peak, looking back towards the light.
The cave near Sapitwa
A walker standing at the summit marker on Chilemba peak with one arm raised, against a blue sky and cloud.
Chilemba
Chambe peak rising above a wide field of golden plateau grass under towering white cloud.
Chambe Plateau
A still tarn on the plateau reflecting low cloud, ringed by grass and scree below grey crags.
The blue lagoon, Lujeri
The Mulanje massif seen from Likhubula at the foot of the mountain, across open grass and trees in morning light.
Likhubula
The rounded granite dome of Chambe peak above green and rocky slopes.
Chambe Peak
Two walkers standing beside a concrete summit marker on wet granite boulders in flat cloud.

Where a photograph is captioned, the place name is Edgison's own. The rest are left uncaptioned rather than guessed at.

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