Mountain Climbing & Hiking

An Extinct Volcano on the Kenyan Border Mount Elgon National Park protects the Ugandan slopes of an enormous extinct shield volcano straddling the border with Kenya, […]

A Mountain That Rarely Feels Busy Mount Elgon National Park sees considerably fewer visitors than Uganda’s more famous gorilla trekking and savannah destinations, and crowding here […]

Africa’s Second-Highest Peak Mount Kenya National Park protects the slopes and glacial peaks of Mount Kenya, an extinct volcano rising to 5,199 meters that ranks as […]

Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest peak and the world’s tallest freestanding mountain, rising 5,895 meters from the plains of northern Tanzania to a summit permanently capped […]