Mount Kilimanjaro, visible 70 kilometres or 43 miles east of our climb of Mount Meru in Arusha National Park, Tanzania, East Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro National Park is a major hiking and climbing destination. Kilimanjaro is the world's highest single free-standing mountain above sea level: 5,899 m or 19,354 ft (2014 measurement). It's the highest mountain in Africa and the highest volcano in the Eastern Hemisphere. Its rapidly shrinking glaciers and ice fields are projected to disappear between 2025 and 2035. Of its three volcanic cones, Mawenzi and Shira are extinct, while the tallest cone, Kibo, last erupted 360,000 years ago and could erupt again. The oldest cone, Shira erupted from 2.5–1.9 million years ago. Both Mawenzi and Kibo began erupting about 1 million years ago. Mawenzi extinguished 448,000 years ago. In the 1880s, the mountain became a part of German East Africa and was called Kilima-Ndscharo in German. In 1889, Hans Meyer reached the highest summit on the crater ridge of Kibo and named it Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze (Kaiser Wilhelm peak). That name was used until Tanzania formed in 1964, when the summit was renamed Uhuru Peak, meaning "Freedom Peak" in Kiswahili. // At 4,562 meters (14,968 ft) elevation, Mount Meru is the fifth-highest mountain of Africa. It's the second-highest mountain in Tanzania, after Mount Kilimanjaro. We climbed Mount Meru via the Momella route, starting at Momella gate on the eastern flank. Much of the mountain's height was lost about 7,800 years ago due to a summit collapse. Mount Meru's caldera is 2.2 miles (3.5 km) wide and most recently had a minor eruption in 1910. The movie Hatari! was filmed at the foot of Mount Meru.
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