Kilimanjaro
a volcanic mountain in N Tanzania: highest peak in Africa. 19,321 feet (5,889 meters).
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My relationship with food and the woods has been up and down—from Kilimanjaro to bariatric surgery.
When I hiked Kilimanjaro the first time, I was the fattest female hiker the guides and porters had ever seen.
On the other hand, the mountain’s tens of thousands of annual climbers already stress Kilimanjaro’s environment with litter and trampled vegetation, according to the IUCN.
Tanzania Approves a Cable Car on Kilimanjaro | Stephanie Vermillion | February 14, 2021 | Outside OnlineKilimanjaro’s five diverse vegetation zones encompass everything from forests and farmland to desert and glaciers—which have retreated 85 percent from 1912 to 2013, a fact that has made many a headline.
Tanzania Approves a Cable Car on Kilimanjaro | Stephanie Vermillion | February 14, 2021 | Outside OnlineKilimanjaro could soon look quite different, and not just because of its shrinking glaciers.
Tanzania Approves a Cable Car on Kilimanjaro | Stephanie Vermillion | February 14, 2021 | Outside Online
I did a ten minute scene in his class: the guy who had gangrene in his leg in The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile | Robert Ward | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTReavis was summiting Mount Kilimanjaro with a group of young innovators, including Mooser.
New Site RYOT Combines Breaking News With Activism | Nina Strochlic | July 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the shadow of Kilimanjaro, an Italian couple has created a luxurious and eco-friendly safari camp favored by celebrities.
It is an apt moniker, as the land between the Chyulu Hills and Mount Kilimanjaro reveals itself season after season.
It is the terrain mythologized by Hemingway in The Green Hills of Africa and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
The people of Kibonoto are the westernmost inhabitants on the slopes of Kilimanjaro.
Hunting in Many Lands | VariousThey believe that cannon were taken up Kilimanjaro by the first Arabs who came into the country, and there they lie.
Its peaks are the highest in Africa south of Mount Kilimanjaro, for several of them reach 11,000 feet.
Impressions of South Africa | James BryceFrom here he was driven in March, 1916, and by the end of that month our forces had conquered the whole Kilimanjaro-Meru areas.
World's War Events, Volume III | VariousFever-stricken wrecks are they of the men that marched so eagerly to Kilimanjaro nine weary months before.
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign | Robert Valentine Dolbey
British Dictionary definitions for Kilimanjaro
/ (ˌkɪlɪmənˈdʒɑːrəʊ) /
a volcanic massif in N Tanzania: the highest peak in Africa; extends from east to west for 80 km (50 miles). Height: 5895 m (19 340 ft)
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Cultural definitions for Kilimanjaro
[ (kil-uh-muhn-jahr-oh) ]
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