Category: Mountain Profiles

Mount Luigi di Savoia

Mount Luigi di Savoia 🏔️ Overview Mount Luigi di Savoia is a rugged high-altitude massif in the Rwenzori Mountains of western Uganda. Its highest summit, Sella Peak, reaches approximately 4,627 meters (15,180 feet) above sea level, making Luigi di Savoia the lowest of the six principal high massifs of the Rwenzori. Despite being lower than …

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Weismanns Peak: Elevation, Hiking & Rwenzori Mountains Guide

Weismanns Peak 🏔️ Overview Weismanns Peak, commonly written Weismann’s Peak, rises to 4,620 meters (15,157 feet) in the spectacular Rwenzori Mountains of western Uganda. The summit is part of the Mount Luigi di Savoia massif within Rwenzori Mountains National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site famous for misty valleys, glacial lakes, enormous Afro-alpine plants, and …

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Mount Humphreys (Uganda)

Mount Humphreys Mount Humphreys is a high summit in Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains, one of Africa’s most unusual and spectacular mountain ranges. Rising to approximately 4,578 meters (15,020 feet), the peak lies within the high Rwenzori landscape of western Uganda and inside Rwenzori Mountains National Park. Unlike the volcanic mountains that dominate many parts of East …

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Mount Karisimbi

Mount Karisimbi Mount Karisimbi is a massive stratovolcano rising on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). At 4,507 meters (14,786 feet) according to Peakbagger and Rwanda Development Board data, it is the highest mountain in Rwanda and the highest summit of the Virunga Mountains. Karisimbi is especially notable for …

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Mount Demirkazık

Mount Demirkazık Mount Demirkazık, more precisely BĂĽyĂĽk Demirkazık or Greater Demirkazık, is one of the most recognizable mountains in TĂĽrkiye’s AladaÄźlar, a rugged limestone massif within the central Taurus Mountains. Rising to approximately 3,756 meters (12,323 feet), its steep walls, pointed profile, and extensive climbing terrain have made it one of TĂĽrkiye’s classic mountaineering peaks. …

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Kuh-e Shashgal

Kuh-e Shashgal 🏔️ Overview Kuh-e Shashgal is a remote, little-known high mountain in northeastern Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush. Rising to approximately 6,290 meters (20,636 feet), it is one of Afghanistan’s major 6,000-meter summits and qualifies as an ultra-prominent peak, with more than 1,500 meters of topographic prominence. The mountain lies in or near Kuran wa Munjan …

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Mount Stanley

Mount Stanley 🏔️ Overview Mount Stanley is the highest mountain in the Rwenzori Mountains and one of the great high peaks of Africa. Rising directly along the international border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), its highest summit, Margherita Peak, reaches 5,109 meters (16,762 feet). Margherita Peak is the highest point …

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Mount Kerinci

Mount Kerinci | Kerintji Mount Kerinci rises above the rainforests and tea-growing highlands of central Sumatra as one of Indonesia’s most impressive mountains. Reaching 3,805 meters (12,484 feet), this active stratovolcano is the highest mountain on Sumatra and the highest volcano in Indonesia. Also known as Gunung Kerinci, the mountain forms the highest point of …

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Jabal an Nabi Shu’ayb

Jabal an Nabi Shu’ayb | Jabal Hadhur Jabal an Nabi Shu’ayb is the highest mountain in Yemen and the highest point anywhere on the Arabian Peninsula. Rising to 3,666 meters (12,028 feet) in Yemen’s western highlands, the mountain towers above a landscape of steep volcanic slopes, deeply cut valleys, ancient agricultural terraces, and highland settlements. …

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Jabal Sawda: Height, Location, Hiking & Mountain Facts

Jabal Sawda | Jabal Soudah Jabal Sawda—also written Jabal Soudah, Jabal Sawdah, or Al Soudah—rises above the green highlands of southwestern Saudi Arabia near the city of Abha. For decades it was universally presented as the highest mountain in Saudi Arabia, usually with a published elevation of 3,015 meters (9,892 feet). Modern surveying has made …

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