Why it's incredible: Kilimanjaro hosts huge, endemic plants called giant groundsels. On the middle-altitude slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro grows a strange plant not found anywhere else on Earth. The ...

Mist clung to the moss-covered, rain-soaked valleys of Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains, where the only sound was the rush of glacial streams and the call of distant birds. A world away, climbers on Mount ...

Africa is home to some of the world's most beautiful landscapes, from the huge Congo rainforest to the Fish River Canyon. But few places are as intriguing as the world's second largest continent's ...

Twelve Central Texas college students are starting the new year on the world's highest free-standing mountain. Branndon Bargo, assistant director of outdoor adventure at Southwestern University, is ...

Uninterested in the extreme altitudes of Kilimanjaro, a writer opted instead to explore the region’s vast calderas, abundant wildlife and rare forms of lava. The cloud-topped summit of Ol Doinyo ...