Kenya
Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya, and the second highest in Africa (after Mount Kilimanjaro).
| Elevation | 5,199 metres (17,057 ft) |
Main Peaks of Mount Kenya
- Batian (5199 m - 17,058 ft)
- Nelion (5188 m - 17,022 ft)
- Pt Lenana (4985 m - 16,355 ft)
- Coryndon Peak (4960 m - 16,273 ft)
- Pt Pigott (4957 m - 16,266 ft)
- Pt Thompson (4955 m - 15,466 ft)
- Pt Dutton (4885 m - 16,027 ft)
- Pt John (4883 m - 16,016 ft)
- Pt Melhuish (4880 m - 16,010 ft)
- Pt John Minor (4875 m - 15,990 ft)
- Krapf Rognon (4800 m - 15,740 ft)
- Pt Peter (4757 m - 15,607 ft)
- Pt Slade (4750 m - 15,580 ft)
- Terere (4714 m - 15,462 ft)
- Sendeyo (4704 m - 15,433 ft)
- Midget Peak (4700 m - 15,420 ft)
- The Hat (4639 m - 15,220 ft)
- Delamere Peak
- Macmillan Peak
Glaciers on Mount
The glaciers on Mount Kenya are retreating rapidly. The Mountain Club of Kenya in Nairobi has photographs showing the mountain when it was first climbed in 1899, and again more recently, and the retreat of the glaciers is very evident.Descriptions of ascents of several of the peaks advise on the use of crampons, but now there is no ice to be found. There is no new snow to be found, even on the Lewis Glacier (the largest of them) in winter, so no new ice will be formed. It is predicted to be less than 30 years before there is no more ice on Mount Kenya.
The area of glaciers on the mountain was measured in the 1980s, and recorded as about 0.7 km² (0.25 square miles).This is far smaller than the first observations, made in the 1890s.
Clockwise from the north:
- Northey
- Krapf
- Gregory
- Lewis
- Diamond
- Darwin
- Forel
- Heim
- Tyndall
- Cesar
- Josef