Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro

A community portal about Mount Kilimanjaro with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Kilimanjaro, formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze, is a mountain in northeastern Tanzania. Kilimanjaro is the tallest free-standing mountain... [more]

A community portal about Mount Kilimanjaro with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Kilimanjaro, formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze, is a mountain in northeastern Tanzania. Kilimanjaro is the tallest free-standing mountain rise in the world, rising 4600 meters from the base, and includes the highest peak in Africa at 5,895 meters, providing the dramatic view from the surrounding plains. Kilimanjaro is a giant stratovolcano, not currently active, with fumaroles that emit gas in the crater on the main summit of Kibo. Scientists concluded in 2003 that molten magma is just 400 meters below the summit crater. Although new activity is not expected, there are fears the volcano may collapse, causing a major eruption similar to Mount St. Helens. Several collapses and landslides have occurred on Kibo in the past, one creating the area known as the western breach. Although there is no recorded history of eruptions, local legend speaks of activity around 170 years ago.

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Washington, DC (AHN) - Landslides in Tanzania caused by days of heavy rains killed at least 12 children and eight adults near Mount Kilimanjaro last week. Officials there said the death toll could rise as search and rescue operations get underway ...  
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(CNN) -- Four days of heavy rains triggered a landslide that killed 12 children and eight adults near Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania, authorities said Friday. Five of the children were under six, said Suzan Kaganda, a police department ...  
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For those who doubt global warming, it is difficult when someone points out something so blatantly obvious, it cannot be denied. Thus is the snowcap on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa an obvious indicator of the truth behind global climate change.  
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A new report from the National Academy of Sciences in the United States released today estimates that the ice fields atop Mount Kilimanjaro and on its flanks will likely disappear within several decades, if current climatological conditions are sustained. Mount Kilimanjaro is...read more  
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AP Science Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) â The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak â made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway â is rapidly melting, researchers report. Some 85 percent of the ice that made ...  
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