Mt Kilimanjaro''s snow-capped summit white as ever

Aug 12, 2015

Ugandan photographer Enock Kakande, flew over Kilimanjaro in Tanzania last week, and captured exclusive photographs that indicate the mountain maintains its reputation of having snow all through the year at its summit.

By Vision Reporter

Environmentalists have in the past expressed fear that Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, would lose all its snow cover due to global warming.

Ugandan photographer Enock Kakande, flew over Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania last week, and captured exclusive photographs that indicate the mountain maintains its year-long snow cover at its summit.

He captured pictures of the three volcanic cones on Kibo, Mawezi and Shira and the Crater lake at the summit of the 19,000ft mountatin in a plane to Dar Es Salaam.

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"The pilot Capt., Rizwan Remtula flew 19,000ft high at a speed of 47000km/h, but I managed to capture the images,” he said. 
 
"The Kibo summit is the best preserved crater on mount Kirimanjaro. The summits are permanently covered in snow and large glaciers".
 
In 2002, renowned American climatologist, Professor Lonnie Thompson predicted the snow would vanish between 2015 and 2020, but local ecologists say it is nowhere near extinction.
 
Mount Kilimanjaro is the only permanent ice-capped summit near the equator. It is located 200 miles south of the equator, rising more than three miles above the dry plains of north Tanzania.
 
The majestic Mountain comprises three separate peaks. The highest of the three being, Kibo which stretches 19,340 feet above sea level.
 

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