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The fire started last Sunday and spread over 95 square kilometers without causing any fatalities on the mountain, which rises to 5,895 meters above sea level, TANAPA revealed.
This satellite image distributed courtesy of Planet Lab, Inc., taken on October 12, 2020, shows a fire on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. Image: AFP.
DAR ES SALAAM – An inferno on the slopes of Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, came almost under control on Saturday, six days after it erupted, authorities said.
“Basically, the fire is contained and tourism activities continue, considering that they were not affected by hell,” spokesman for the Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA), Pascal Shelutete, told AFP.
“So far, we have not established any human impact from the fire. Those who were planning to climb the mountain need not worry at all, as tourist activities continue as usual.”
The fire started last Sunday and spread over 95 square kilometers without causing any fatalities on the mountain, which rises to 5,895 meters above sea level, TANAPA revealed.
Located in the northeast of the country, near the Kenyan border, Kilimanjaro, immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, is a popular destination for climbers and tourists in general.
It and the area around it are part of a national park and it is also a Unesco World Heritage site.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the fire was started by porters accompanying the mountaineers.
Hell was spotted Sunday afternoon in the Whona area, a rest center for climbers using Mandara and Horombo, two of several routes up Kilimanjaro.
Hundreds of volunteers, residents and students mobilized to deal with the fire.
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