Anghomar

Isolated big mountain in the Atlas Range. Good landscapes, including the very beautiful Lake Tamda, an azure lake amidst stark white-rock scenery. This lake is almost a kilometer long between the impressive peaks of Jebel Anghomar and Jebel Tamda.

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Toubkal

Jebel Toubkal is forty miles due south of Marracech, and is the highest and most accessible mountain massif of the Atlas range, and the highest of all North Africa. It dominates the area with its steep rocky faces, and is surrounded by massive granite buttresses and several secondary peaks. There are no glaciers on the trail to the summit, although extensive snowfields are present late into the...

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Loolmalasin

Loolmalasin is the 3rd highest peak of Tanzania. It´s located in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, in an area commonly known as the "crater highlands". Although the trek from the village of Nainokanoka to Lake Natron is becoming popular ( along with the trek up Ol´Doinyo Lengai) Loolamalasin is an exciting trek on the way.

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Mount Elgon

Mount Elgon is a towering extinct volcano, and is one of the highest mountains in Africa. Its crater is five miles across and almost 2,000 feet deep, and with Elgon having long been extinct, the crater now holds a large marsh whose waters flow to Lake Victoria, not far south. Elgon's eastern (Kenyan) slopes are included in the Mt.

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Mount Kenya

Mount Kenya is the second highest mountain in Africa. Like Mount Kilimanjaro, it is an extinct volcano. It dominates the Central Kenyan highlands, towering just seventy miles north of Nairobi, and ten miles south of the Equator.

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Mount Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, located in Northeast Tanzania, near the Kenya border. Kilimanjaro is an extinct volcano, and is one of the most massive in the world. It towers 15,000 feet above the surrounding arid plains, and 2.

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Mount Meru

Mount Meru is a volcano which rises just 44 miles west of Kilimanjaro. Though comparatively small, Meru is equally spectacular, with slopes that rise up at incredibly steep angles. It is partially shattered, as its east face was blasted away during an eruption at some point in its past.

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Mount Baker

Mount Baker is the third highest mountain in the Ruwenzori range. Together with Mount Stanley and Mount Speke, it forms a triangle enclosing the upper Bujuku Valley. There are huts and good trails from both the Zaire and Uganda side.

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Mount Emin

Mount Emin is one of the six mountains of the Ruwenzori range. Like Mount Gessi, it is located north of the triangle formed by Mounts Stanley, Speke, and Baker. Emin and Gessi lie on either side of a long narrow valley running north-south.

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Mount Gessi

Mount Gessi is one of the six mountains of the Ruwenzori range. Like Mount Emin, it is located north of the triangle formed by Mounts Stanley, Speke, and Baker. Emin and Gessi lie on either side of a long narrow valley running north-south.

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Mount Luigi

Mount Luigi is the lowest of the six mountains of the Ruwenzori Range, and is located further south than the other five. This massif forms a horse-shoe ridge around an impressive glacial cirque, the finest in the Ruwenzori. From Mutsori, Congo, local tribesman are available as guides or porters.

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Mount Speke

Mount Speke is the second highest mountain in the Ruwenzori range. Together with Mount Stanley and Mount Baker, it forms a triangle enclosing the upper Bujuku Valley. There are huts and good trails from both the Zaire and Uganda side.

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Mount Stanley

Mount Stanely is the highest mountain in the Ruwenzori range, and the highest peak in Africa outside of Mounts Kilimanjaro (19,563 ft.) and Kenya (17,057 ft.). The Bujuku valley is enclosed within a steep triangle formed by Mount Stanley and Mounts Speke and Baker, the second and third highest Ruwenzori peaks respectively.

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Gahinga

Gahinga is situated next to Mt Muhabura on the Rwandan/Ugandan border. Gahinga is located in the Bufumbira field, an easterly part of the Virunga volcanic complex located in the western branch of the East African Rift Valley. The lava flows of Gahinga have K-Ar ages from about 0.

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Mount Karisimbi

Mount Karisimbi is the highest of the eight volcanoes in the Virunga Mountains. It is a huge dome, now dormant, that dominates the range, more in girth than in height. Its name in Kinyaruanda means white shell, which refers to its often white-capped summit.

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Tahat

Tahat is the highest point of Ahaggar, the central core in a large composite of eroded volcanic crater plugs. These unusual formations rise suddenly from the vast Sahara desert. Despite its isolation, the area is becoming increasingly popular with tourists, and is surrounded by an unpaved road that takes four days to hike, and obviously much less time to drive.

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Emi Koussi

Emi Koussi is a huge extinct volcano in the middle of the Sahara Desert. It is the highest of the Tibesti Mountains, located in extreme north Chad. Its crater is 12 miles wide and 4,000 feet deep, and the climb is a walk up.

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Devil's Peak

Every tourist visiting Cape Town wants to climb Table Mountain, but very few climb Devil's Peak which is right next to it. There is no cableway going up, so the only people on top will be real hikers. There are a couple of routes going up, varying from easy walks that involve no climbing (I once walked up with a dislocated elbow in a sling) and take about 5-8 hours from the parking lots...

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Sneeuberg

Highest peak in the Cedarberg range. On route to the top is the monolithic Maltese Cross, a solid 20 m high rock pillar, eerily shaped like its famous namesake. On a clear day, the view from the Sneeuberg summit stretches to the Atlantic Ocean, more than 100 km away.

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Table Mountain

Table Mountain is a large flattop mountain in the far southwestern corner of Africa. It overlooks the industry and sprawling suburbs of Cape Town, and provides a silent retreat from the city's noisy streets. Its deeply scarred and craggy sandstone cliffs are one of the most popular climbs in the world, and there are over 500 documented routes to the top, many of them serious technical climbs.

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Tafelberg

An impressive square red sandstone peak which is the second highest point in the remote and rugged Cedarberg range. Great area for high-grade multi-pitch rock climbing. The easiest route up this peak follows a steep gully into a water-worn, cavern-like chimney with polished walls about 8m high which ends in a scramble with a fixed chain at one point.

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Wolfberg

A multitude of climbing routes, from easy scrambling to high-grade multi-pitch rock climbing with many overhangs. The fantastic weathering of the red sandstone makes this range unique, with grotesque shapes rising from every outcrop. Features of Wolfberg are the Valley of the Red Gods (a field of giant weathered blocks), the Cracks (contorted narrow passages that squeeze through the rock face to...

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Cathedral Peak

Cathedral Peak is perhaps the most famous peak of the Drakensberg, situated in a popular hiking and rock climbing area where several free-standing rock pinnacles have been separated from the main escarpment by erosion. A vast network of trails stretches throughout the region, converging upon a main trailhead at the Cathedral Peak Hotel, east of the escarpment. Many excellent rock climbing peaks...

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Mont-aux-Sources

Mont-aux-Sources is a mountain block, forming one of the highest and most spectacular portions of the Drakensberg. It includes the Sentinel, a spectacular wall of 1,000 vertical feet. The high point of the massif is actually an inconspicuous protuberance, but it is important in that it forms the triangular corner where Lesotho meets the South African provinces of Natal and Orange Free State.

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Sentinel

The Sentinel is a commonly climbed peak because there is easy access from the Sentinel Car park where there is a hikers cabin. There are a variety of routes up the mountain, ranging from a scramble where a rope is advisable, the standard route, to difficult technical rock climbs. A route guide is available at www.

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Mulanje

Mulanje is a large granite massif in Malawi, a small African nation, situated snugly between southern Tanzania, northeastern Zambia, and Northern Mozambique. Mulanje covers 245 square miles in Malawi's southeastern corner, near Mozambique. The massif rises abruptly from the surrounding plain, and reaches its highest point in Sapitwa Peak.

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Piton de la Fournaise

Piton de la Fournaise is an active volcano, rising from the Indian Ocean in the southeastern corner of Réunion Island. Access is easy, as the mountain's frequent volcanic activity is a tourist attraction, so rides and tours are readily available. The walk to the top is as easy as getting there.

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Piton des Neiges

Piton des Neiges is the highest mountain on Reunion Island. The mountain is an old, eroded volcano, situated in the geologically older north central portion of the island. Three magnificent sheer-walled cirques surround the mountain, and its summit is often capped in snow.

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mumpu

Rugged mountain situated within the North Swaka Forest Reserve which rises from the plain abrubtly. The climb includes a bat infested cave which is situated between 4000ft and 5000ft in elevation. This mountain is situated in central Zambia.

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Cameroon Mountain

Cameroon Mountain is an isolated volcanic mass, covering 800 square miles and towering higher than any other mountain in Western Africa. It is also the nearest African mountain to any sea coast, as it rises from the waters of the Gulf of Guinea, a spectacular site when viewed from sea. The offshore island of Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, is south of the mountain.

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