What better way to learn a little history and geography than to take a peek at some famous and erstwhile not so famous mountain peaks around the world.
Kilimanjaro (Africa):
Africa’s highest peak at 19,330 feet, this tri-vocanic cone (Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira) mountain range provides dramatic panorama of its surrounding plains. Every type of climate on earth including a year round, snow topped summit – exists here because of Kilimanjaro’s equatorial location and elevation.
Illimani (South America):
A major landmark of the 13,600 foot high capital city of La Paz, Bolivia because of its year round visibility from there, Illimani which means “golden eagle” in the local Aimara language soars to more than 21,000 feet above sea level. Its 365 day a year snowline is demarked at a little over 16,000 feet.
Pikes Peak (North America):
Originall spelled Pike’s Peak, at 14,115 feet this peak of the Rocky Mountains is one of Colorado’s 54 “fourteeners”, meaning the state has 54 peaks that exceed 14,000 feet in altitude. It is named after one Zebulon Pike, who lead an 1806 expedition to Southern Colorado.
Mount Ngauruhoe (Australasia):
In reel life Mount Ngauruhoe achieved worldwide exposure when it starred as the fictional Mount Doom in Peter Jacksons The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. In real life, however it is an active strato-volcano in New Zealand deemed to have first erupt 2.5 millennia ago and in the last century alone did so 45 times, the latest having occurred in 1977.
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