Mount Speke

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Mount Speke
Mount Speke as seen from the climb to Scott-Elliot Pass.

Mount Speke as seen from the climb to Scott-Elliot Pass.

height 4890  m
location Uganda
Mountains Ruwenzori
Dominance 2.54 km →  Mount Stanley
Coordinates 0 ° 23 '52 "  N , 29 ° 53' 33"  E Coordinates: 0 ° 23 '52 "  N , 29 ° 53' 33"  E
Mount Speke (Uganda)
Mount Speke
First ascent 1906

Mount Speke (also Duwoni ) is a mountain range in the Ruwenzori Mountains in Uganda . Its highest peak , the Vittorio Emanuele peak, is at 4890  m after Mount Stanley the second highest peak in the Ruwenzori and the fifth highest in Africa .

summit

The single peaks of Mount Speke are:

summit height Namesake
Vittorio Emanuele lace 4890  m Vittorio Emanuele III. , King of Italy.
Ensonga 4865  m
Johnston tip 4834  m Henry Hamilton Johnston , English explorer of Africa.
Trident 4572  m

history

Origin of the name

For the Bakonjo people , the mountain is called Duwoni . The name common today was given by Ludwig Amadeus of Savoy and is reminiscent of the Africa explorer John Hanning Speke .

First ascent

Ludwig Amadeus of Savoy with César Ollier and Joseph Petigax

Mount Speke was first climbed on June 23, 1906 by Ludwig Amadeus von Savoyen 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

Mount Baker is usually climbed starting from the Bujuku Hut as a day tour over the Stuhlmann Pass and the southwest ridge. There are only remains of the Speke Glacier that can be bypassed on the ascent.

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 Speke, Uganda on Peakbagger.com (English)
  2. ^ Rwenzori Mountains: Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering. summitpost.org, accessed December 16, 2015 .