Mt Kenya’s Background,
At Lynnden Tours, We give you a simple and short brief of Mt. Kenya.
Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya and second highest in African continent after Kilimanjaro. The highest peaks of the mountain are, Batian (5,199m, 17,057ft), Nelion (5,188m,17,021ft), and point Lenana (4,985m, 16,355ft). The mountain is originally as referred as Kirinyaga by the local GEMA community who live beneath its highlands, it means the realm of our God(Ngai or Mwene Nyaga).
The two highest Summits on this mountain are multi-pitch technical climbs that requires good acclimatization and fitness, lot of high technical climbing gears and the associated skills plus a qualified and experienced technical guide.Check Mount Kenya Rock Climbing. The most ascended Summit is point Lenana, the highest peak tackled without technical support.
Mount Kenya is a critical biodiversity hotspot-important bird area, World Heritage Site, National park and National reserve. We regard it amongst the most scenic mountains in the world as it boosts from its razor-shaped peaks, permanent glaciers, many high altitude lakes/tarns, rivers, waterfalls, rainforests, various large and small wild animals which spice up the hiking environment to be superb.