Summit Murder Mystery Series

by Nancy Atkinson       Award-winning photographer Babak Tafreshi from The World At Night (TWAN) has been traveling the world to captures nightscapes in various locations. He has shared five beautiful timelapse videos of night sky landscapes “from locations that never been filmed like this before,” he said. A view of Mt. Kilimanjaro at night. Credit and copyright: Babak Tafreshi. Kilimanjaro at Night Here, travel to Mount Kilimanjaro and view it under the starry skies of Amboseli. You’ll see the Magellanic Clouds and fast-passing satellites, along with African wildlife. For more information about the Summit Murder Mystery series, CLICK HERE  To order your copy of Murder on Everest, CLICK HERE  To order your copy of Murder on Kilimanjaro , CLICK HERE Follow Charles Irion on Twitter HERE Friend Charles Irion on Facebook HERE Visit Charles Irion's YouTube channel HERE 

According to her obituary, published in Saturday’s Connecticut Post, Norma Brewer’s dog contributed to her death — chewing off her boots and socks, leading her to succumb from hypothermia. According to the obituary, this occurred while Brewer, who was 83 and in a wheelchair, was attempting to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak. “There is suspicion that Mrs. Brewer died from hypothermia, after Mia ate Mrs. Brewer’s warm winter boots and socks,” read the death notice, which had been submitted to the newspaper by a funeral home. Brewer, the death notice read, never realized her life goal of reaching the summit of the 19,341-foot mountain. But, it said, she had made it to the base camp, where she died in the company of her daughter, her cats and dog “Mia.” If all this is sounding a little too unbelievable to be true, that may be because it isn’t — not entirely. While Norma did die, the obituary was a joke — one final prank (or was it?...