Mitali Saran: Gorillas in the mist

Tracking mountain gorillas in Rwanda is worth every nettle sting

Mitali Saran  |  New Delhi  July 8, 2016 Last Updated at 13:58 IST

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An hour into the climb in Volcanoes National Park, I begged for five minutes’ rest. “Sure,” said the guide, “We’ll stop just ahead at the bench.”   Twenty minutes later, I collapsed on the bench where Dian Fossey used to take a breather on her way up the mountain. Dian Fossey is the madly famous scientist who spent her life studying mountain gorillas, which are found only in the Virunga massif. She is best known for introducing the term ‘dung lobe’ to my vocabulary, as in “The animals simply shift their buttocks slightly to catch ...

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Mitali Saran: Gorillas in the mist