Kenya and Tanzania -- Oct 2012 -- Part I of III

Snowcap.

I called this a snowcap, but it might be a glacier. After returning home, I found some information (maps and annotated aerial photos) for this mountain. However, I've not been able to firmly connect in my mind what is shown in these photos to that information. There apparenlty are two things labled "glacier fields" on the southwest and south side of the mountain (this highest peak or summit of the mountain). I believe from Amboseli, we were viewing the mountain from roughly north northwest. This view may include those glacier fields, but I'm not certain.

I'm also confused about sun angles. In the US (well into the northern hemisphere), snow and ice most likely to collect (and stay into summer, or year-around) on the north sides of mountains. Here, (slightly) in the southern hemisphere, and near the equator, I have no idea.

Also, I'm not sure "seasons" here are really the same thing as in the temperate zones (well away from the equator). They seemed to refer to dry season and wet season moreso than (aay) summer and winter. They seemed to have at least two wet seasons -- one with long-duration rains (like a monsoon) and one with short-duration rains.