Mt.ELGON NATIONAL PARK

About Mount Elgon National Park

Mount Elgon National Park is a national park located approximately one hundred forty kilometers north East of Lake Victoria. It covers approximately an area of 1279 km² and is divided by the border of Kenya and Uganda. The Ugandan side of the park covers 1110 km² while the Kenyan part covers almost 169 km².The Kenyan side of the park was gazetted earlier in 1968 than the Ugandan part which was gazette in 1992.
In 1896, C. W. Hobley became the first European to circumnavigate the mountain. Stigler and Kmunke are people who made the first recorded ascent to the Koitobos and Wagagai in 1911. Jackson.F, J. Martin, and E. Gedge where the first people to make a record of assenting to Sudek in the year 1890. The main peak of Wagagai is very easy scramble and this makes it not even to require special mountaineering skills >read more