Kilimanjaro - Stunning

Beautiful nature

clipped from www.nytimes.com To many climate scientists and glaciologists who have probed and measured, the disappearance of Kilimanjaro's ice fields is inevitable and imminent Photo: Neil Modie clipped from www.nytimes.com Kilimanjaro has six established routes to the summit, some of them demanding mountaineering routes Photo: Tom Norring clipped from www.nytimes.com In the moors are the region’s most distinctively weird plants Photo: Tom Norring clipped from www.nytimes.com A lobelia deckenii plant Photo: Tom Norring clipped from www.nytimes.com Chagga — the people who inhabit Kilimanjaro’s southern foothills Photo: Tom Norring clipped from www.nytimes.com Lava Tower is a black volcanic plug rising some 300 vertical feet above the plateau Photo: Tom Norring clipped from www.nytimes.com Sunrise at Stella Point, at the lower lip of Kibo’s summit crater Photo: Tom Norring clipped from www.nytimes.com Trekkers at Uhuru on Mount Kilimanjaro’s Kibo peak Photo: Tom Norring clipped from www.nytimes.com At 19,340 feet, Uhuru is the highest point in Africa. Hemingway once described the mountain “as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun.” Photo: Tom Norring