This week is Tanzania, the home of the tallest free-standing mountain in the world, Mt. Kilimanjaro.Unlike the dangerous snow-coated pile of ice and rock that is Mt. Everest, Mt. Kilimanjaro has much plant and animal life living amazingly high on it's slopes. These creatures are a trifle exotic, but what could you expect from plants and animals living on the high slopes of a mountain?
The cold, though thoroughly bone chilling I'm sure, is not nearly as severe as those chilling temperatures on Mt. Everest which pass out frost bites and worse with an eager hand.
Here is a really interesting link about Kilimanjaro.
Mt. Kilimanjaro is made up of three different volcanoes. Kibo, the youngest, is in the middle, Shira is on the west side and Mawenza is on the east.
Anyways, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro sounds like it would be much more enjoyable than doing the same to Mt. Everest, and I intend to climb it as soon as I can.
2 comments:
Why does this make me think of Dwarves? And Smaug?
Fascinating blog! Hemingway uses this mountain as a setting for at least one of his stories.
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