Top 10 Highest Mountains in Africa

Top 10 Highest Mountains in Africa
Hello Displorers, welcome to another informative video and thanks for watching. In today’s video, we shall be counting down the top 10 highest mountains in Africa. Africa is a continent with 54 sovereign nations which are all beautiful and amazing in their own unique way. The continent is known worldwide for its alluring tourist destination, its breathtaking views, wildlife, and vibrant cultures. When people visit African nations, they always look for a break from their daily hassles of life. To some, the best places to visit are the islands and beaches of the continent from Zanzibar to Watamu to Pemba, the beaches offer a great escape but there are also the lovers of its mountains that attract tourists from across the world. Africa has many mountains that offer outstanding physical features and sites which attract both local and international tourists who visit the sites to enjoy their beauty.These mountains are either volcanic or dormant in nature.
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The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest and without delay, these are the top 10 highest mountains in Africa.
10. Mount Ras Dashen(Ethiopia) – Height – 4.550m
Ras Dejen is the highest mountain in Ethiopia and tenth highest mountain of Africa. As part of Simien Mountains National Park located in the Amhara Region, it reaches an elevation of 4,550 meters. Due to the height of this mountain, it frequently snows on the summit during cold evening temperatures but the vast temperature differences between night and day means that this snow doesn’t last long as soon as the sun rises. In winter snow falls rarely, since the majority of Ethiopia's yearly rainfall is in the summer, but if it does it usually lasts for weeks or months.The first recorded ascent by a Eurasian was in 1841, by the French officers Ferret and Galinier. There is no verifiable evidence of earlier ascents by locals, but the summit climate and conditions are relatively hospitable, and there are nearby high-altitude pastoral settlements.
9. Mount Meru(Tanzania) - Height - 4.566m
The ninth highest mountain in Africa falls to Mount Meru in Tanzania, just lying 70km west of the highest peak in this video, Mount Meru sits at 4,566m. The majority of this mountain was actually lost during a volcanic eruption over 8,000 years ago that blew away much of the eastern side of this volcano. After a few recent eruptions, with the most recent being a minor eruption in 1910, Mount Meru is now considered a dormant volcano.
8. Mount Luigi Di Savoia(Congo / Uganda) – Height – 4.627m
After ascending the six highest mountains in the Ruewnzori Range, with 16 peaks bagged in total during his expedition to the region in 1906, Prince Luigi Amedeo finally had a peak named after himself after reaching the summit of Mount Luigi Di Savoia on 18th June 1906. Mount Luigi Di Savoia is similar to the other larger peaks in the region in that it is composed of many s
Coming in at the 7th position is mount Gessi at 4715m. The twin peaks of Mount Gessi create another jagged ridgeline that is flanked by large glaciers on its northern side, although these are retreating fast. Prince Luigi Amedeo and his team of explorers observed that the whole of the western side of Mount Gessi had been covered by a glacier during their first ascent of this peak, these glaciers have now shrunk down to a small ice sheet. The mountain is located between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda and is a tourist hotspot.
6. Mount Emin (DR Congo) – Height – 4.789m
Mount Emin is made of up two peaks of a similar height, a north and a south peak, with a large glacier sandwiched in between the two peaks. The south peak, named Umberto is the largest of the two and was first ascended again by Prince Luigi Amedeo and two companions in 1906, which was impressive given the fairly technical nature of climbing involved to ascend the southern ridge up to Umberto.Mount Emin is one of the six mountains of the Ruwenzori range and like Mount Gessi, it is located north of the triangle formed by Mounts Stanley, Speke, and Baker. Emin and Gessi lie on either side of a long narrow valley running north-south. Emin's twin summits are Umbertoand Kraepelin. The mountain rises to a rocky north-south ridge with the higher peak at the southern end.
5. Mount Baker (Uganda) – Height – 4.844m
Also sitting in the Ruwenzori Mountains National Park and just 2.3 kilometers from neighboring Mount Stanley is Mount Baker, Mount Baker reaches a lofty height of 4,844m. Similarly, to all of the other peaks situated in the Ruwenzori Mountains National Park, Mount Baker is comprised of a cluster of fairly inaccessible summits joined together by a jagged ridgeline which is topped by Edward Peak, which was first climbed again by none other than Prince Luigi Amedeo.

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