A brief introduction to Kilimanjaro’s volcanic crater

In my Kilimanjaro trip report last week, I enthused about Kilimanjaro’s inner crater, and said that I considered it to be the jewel in Kilimanjaro’s crown. Despite this, the overwhelming majority of the 40,000 or so people a year who climb this giant volcano – perhaps as much as 99% of them (a wild guess on my part) – don’t actually get to see it.

In this post I’m going to talk in a little more detail about what they’re missing out on. But first, here’s a photo I took of it.

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