To many climate scientists and glaciologists who have probed and measured, the disappearance of Kilimanjaro's ice fields is inevitable and imminent

Kilimanjaro has six established routes to the summit, some of them demanding mountaineering routes

In the moors are the region’s most distinctively weird plants

A lobelia deckenii plant

Chagga — the people who inhabit Kilimanjaro’s southern foothills

Lava Tower is a black volcanic plug rising some 300 vertical feet above the plateau

Sunrise at Stella Point, at the lower lip of Kibo’s summit crater

Trekkers at Uhuru on Mount Kilimanjaro’s Kibo peak

At 19,340 feet, Uhuru is the highest point in Africa. Hemingway once described the mountain “as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun.”