Despite being an experienced hiker, the student had reportedly never considered waking up in a tent on a mountain.

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Elephants move calmly across the savanna plains. This view comes from Amboseli National Park, Kenya, facing Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. The contrast between wildlife and mountain is clear.

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Africa's ground is shifting. Tectonic forces are tearing the continent apart along the East African Rift. Satellites and GPS show this separation is happening now, widening by millimetres annually.

Afowiri Kizito Fondzenyuy, a Cameroonian marathoner for charitable causes, recently completed the “Seven Continents” challenge by climbing up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.