Local tribes
 build their houses so that this mountain is visible from the door, because the god Ngai is said to live here.
 
This mountain's unusual shape comes from the fact that it is a lava plug eroded by glaciers. Local tribes
 build their houses so that this mountain is visible from the door, because the god Ngai is said to live here.
 In 1888, the Hungarian explorer Count Teleki became the first European to attempt to climb this mountain,
 and also discovered nearby Lake Rudolf, now called Lake Turkana. This extinct stratovolcano dates to the
 opening of the nearby Great Rift Valley. The culture of the nearby Kikuyu tribe was described in a famous
 anthropology book about "facing" this mountain. For 10 points, name this second highest mountain in
 Africa, which shares its name with the home of Mombasa.
This mountain's unusual shape comes from the fact that it is a lava plug eroded by glaciers.
Mount {Kenya}