Mount Baker (Ruwenzori)

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Mount Baker
North side of Mount Baker as seen from Bujuku Hut

North side of Mount Baker as seen from Bujuku Hut

height 4844  m
location Uganda
Mountains Ruwenzori
Dominance 2.08 km →  Mount Stanley - Savoia Point
Coordinates 0 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  N , 29 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 0 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  N , 29 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Baker (Ruwenzori) (Uganda)
Mount Baker (Ruwenzori)
First ascent 1906

The Mount Baker (also Baker Plateau and Kiyanja ) is a mountain range in the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda . Its highest peak , the Edward peak, is at 4844  m after Mount Stanley and Mount Speke the third highest peak in the Ruwenzori and the sixth highest in Africa .

summit

The individual peaks of the Baker Plateau are:

summit height Namesake
Edward tip 4844  m Edward VII , King of the United Kingdom.
Semper tip 4794  m Karl Gottfried Semper , German zoologist and naturalist.
Wollaston lace 4626  m Alexander FR Wollaston , British physician, ornithologist, botanist, mountaineer and researcher.
Moore tip 4623  m John Edmund Sharrock Moore , British botanist.
Grauers rock 4483  m Rudolf Grauer , Austrian Africa explorer.
Cagni tip 4485  m Umberto Cagni , Italian explorer and admiral.

history

Origin of the name

For the Bakonjo people , the mountain is called Kiyanja . In 1831 Franz Stuhlmann discovered him on his expedition and called him Semper or Ngemwimbi . Ludwig Amadeus of Savoy later named him after the Scottish Africa explorer Samuel White Baker as part of his Ruwenzori expedition .

First ascent

Ludwig Amadeus of Savoy with César Ollier and Joseph Petigax

The ridge of Mount Baker was first reached in January 1906 by the Austrian mountaineer Rudolf Grauer, but without reaching the summit. In February of the same year and again in April an English expedition with the participation of Alexander FR Wollaston, AB Wosnam and M. Carruthers reached a similar point in the rock. The highest point of Mount Baker was first reached on June 10, 1906 by Ludwig Amadeus of Savoy together with the mountain guides Joseph Petigax , César Ollier and Josef Brocherel as part of the expedition to explore the Ruwenzori.

Routes to the summit

The Mt. Baker is typically climbed from the southwestern Kitandara Hut ( 3960  m ) as a day tour over the south ridge. The route is now ice-free - glacier remains can be avoided.

See also

literature

  • Reinhard Dippelreither: Uganda: Ruwenzori (= Outdoor Handbook . Vol. 127, The way is the goal ). Conrad Stein Verlag, Welver 2006, ISBN 3-86686-127-3 .
  • Ludwig Amadeus of Savoy: On the summit of the Ruwenzori. 1906. Discovery, exploration, first ascent. Edition Erdmann, Lenningen 2005, ISBN 3-86503-025-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mount Baker, Uganda on Peakbagger.com (English)
  2. ↑ Climbing history before 1906. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .
  3. ^ Rwenzori Mountains: Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering. Accessed December 15, 2015 .