dominating Arusha is Mt Meru, about 14500 ft high/4500 m. It used to be a volcano, probably higher at some point than Kilimanjaro, which also used to be a volcano. There is still a crater at its top by the way.
Kilimanjaro sits clear of clouds on the horizon. The weather on the ground was so bad to day. One must enjoy the feeling to fly above these weather conditions...which I did with no passengers.
That little ash cone had some activity about 100 years ago they say...it sits much lower than the mountain itself.
here is a side view of the top. It looks like a sharp wall because this volcano collapsed during the last serious eruption.
the curvature of the mountain is a bit visible here, encompassing the ash cone.
in order to climb it, one has to walk in equilibrium on that thin ridge....the one time I tried with friends, we had to quit 30 min short of the summit because a hailstorm was raging, because none of us were really at ease with the useless drunk guide, and mostly because one professional climber had slipped and died the week before in similar conditions....
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