"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway first published in August 1936, in Esquire magazine. It was republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Sto
Hemingway hunting on safari, 1934
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Mount Kilimanjaro is a large dormant volcano in Tanzania. It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world, at 5,895 m above sea level and 4,900
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story)
…in 1961, and is included in The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition (1987). The story opens with a paragraph about Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, whose Western summit is called in Masai the "House of God." There, we are told, lies the frozen carcass of a leopard…
Kilimanjaro from Amboseli National Park, Kenya
Kilimanjaro's main peaks are Kibo (left) and Mawenzi (right), as named by the Chagga. They respectively mean "spotted" and "broken".
Kilimanjaro's glaciers' retreat in 1912–2018
Vertical margin wall of the Rebmann Glacier in 2005 with Mount Meru, which is 70 km (43 mi) away, in the background