🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲 Check out how I made it up to 4,090 m / 13,420 ft: the summit of Mt. Cameroon, also the highest point in Central and West Africa! #cameroon #buea #douala | Traveltomtom

Mount Cameroon is an active volcano in Cameroon near the Gulf of Guinea. Rising to 4,040 metres (13,255 ft) above the coast of west Cameroon. It rises from the coast through tropical rainforest to a bare summit, which is cold, windy, and occasionally dusted with snow. Mount Cameroon is also known as Cameroon Mountain or Fako (the name of the higher of its two peaks) or by its native name Mongo ma Ndemi ("Mountain of Greatness"). It is the highest point in sub-Saharan western and central Africa,

This Victorian Woman Climbed An African Volcano While Others Poured Tea" "Mary Kingsley defied Victorian expectations by traveling alone through West Africa in the 1890s, becoming the first European woman to climb Mount Cameroon. With no formal education, she lived with local tribes, wrote bestselling books, and challenged colonial prejudices about African cultures. Her adventures prove women have always been capable of extraordinary things. #mary #kingsley #victorian #africa #mount #cameroon #e