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Julius Nyerere, first president of Tanganyika and Tanzania The first ascent of the highest summit of Mawenzi was made on 29 July 1912, by the German climbers Eduard Hans Oehler and Fritz Klute, who named it Hans Meyer Peak. Oehler and Klute went on to make the third-ever ascent of Kibo, via the Drygalski Glacier, and descended via the Western Breach. : 85 The mountain lent its name to the 1914 ...
Kibo Summit of Kilimanjaro, the mountain on which Rebmann saw snow. In 1848, with the Swahili guide Bwana Kheri, Rebmann was the first European to see Mount Kilimanjaro. The following year, he saw Mount Kenya together with his colleague Krapf. [11] [12] On the October 16, 1847, the two men set out for the interior of Kenya.
Mount Kilimanjaro * Eastern Rift mountains ... Austria Germany: 2,962 1,746: 1,216 Piz Bernina 1 / Mont Blanc 2 / HP Germany: Radomir/Kalabak/Kerkini [7]
The 5,610 m (18,406 ft) Mount Damavand is a very large isolated stratovolcano with over 4,600 m (15,000 ft) of topographic prominence. There are more than 70 volcanic vents known as the Kunlun Volcanic Group in Tibet at higher elevations than Damavand's summit, the highest of which has a reported elevation of 5,808 m (19,055 ft) (35.5°N 80.2°E).
During the colonial period to 1918 Mount Kilimanjaro in the colony of German East Africa, at 5,895 m (19,341 ft), was officially the highest mountain of the German Reich. During the Nazi era from 1938 to 1945 this title went to the Großglockner which, at 3,797 m (12,457 ft), is today the highest mountain in Austria.
Hans Meyer Memorial recognizing Meyer's ascent of Mt Kilimanjaro in Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania Gravestone of Hans Meyer in Leipzig. Hans Heinrich Josef Meyer (22 March 1858 – 5 July 1929) was a German geographer from Hildburghausen, who was the son of publisher Herrmann Julius Meyer (1826–1909).
Baron Karl Klaus (Carl Claus) von der Decken (born 8 August 1833 in Kotzen, Brandenburg, Germany; died 2 October 1865 near Bardera, Somalia) was a German explorer of eastern Africa and the first European to attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Following a stint in the military, von der Decken first travelled to eastern Africa in May 1860.
Map of countries coloured according to their highest point. The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.