Rwenzori Mountains Wonders

Rwenzori Mountains reach a stunning height of 5,109 metres.

Rwenzori Mountains lie on the Uganda and Congo border.

The range formed about three million years ago in Pliocene.

Rwenzori mountains spread about 120 kilometres long and 65 wide.

Six main massifs form the Rwenzori mountain range.

Mount Stanley holds the highest peak, Margherita, at 5,109 metres.

Rwenzori’s glaciers covered 7.5 square kilometres in 1906.

By 2005, glaciers shrank to about 1.5 square kilometres.

Plant life ranges from tropical forest to alpine meadows and snow.

Five vegetation zones rise from evergreen forest to nival zone.

Plants like giant lobelia grow unusually large at high elevations.

Moss-covered forests thrive in the Rwenzori Mountains.

European explorers linked Rwenzori to the legendary Mountains of the Moon.

Glaciers are retreating, with a 29.5% glacier loss by 2024.

Rwenzori Mountains remain a unique jewel of equatorial Africa.