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List of names on Mount Kenya
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Mount Kenya (5,199 metres (17,057 ft)) is the second highest mountain in Africa and the highest mountain in Kenya,[1] after which the country is named.[2] It lies just south of the equator and currently has eleven small glaciers.[1][3] Various expeditions reached it in the following years.[4][5] It was first climbed in 1899 by Halford Mackinder.[6] The mountain became a national park in 1949,[7] played a key role in the Mau Mau events in the 1950s,[8] and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.[9] It is climbed and walked up by up to 15,000 tourists every year.[10]
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