Mount Nyangani, Mountain summit in Nyanga National Park, Zimbabwe
Mount Nyangani is Zimbabwe's highest mountain, at 2,592 metres, in Nyanga National Park about 110 km north-northeast of Mutare. Its summit is a small rock outcrop roughly 40 metres above a broad moor of rolling hills and plateau covering about 8 km2, whose edges fall steeply east and west. The rock is a dolerite and sandstone sill of the Umkondo Group.
Mount Nyangani's summit plateau holds Iron Age ruins on a hill west of the peak, better preserved than those on Little Nyangani. The mountain's dolerite sill north of the summit, on the Kwaraguza Road, has been dated to 1099 million years ago as part of the Umkondo Group. Snowfall was last recorded in August 1935.
The mountain appears in the film Mysteries of Mount Inyangani, which examines the myths and mysteries attached to it. Its Shona name is Gomo reNyangani, and the Inyangani river frog, an endangered amphibian of rocky, fast-flowing montane streams, is named after the peak.
The trek to the summit typically takes between one and three hours depending on your fitness level and pace. You will need to obtain a permit from Nyanga National Park before beginning your ascent.
The mountain is home to Protea asymmetrica, a plant species found nowhere else in the world. Rocky mountain streams here also shelter the Inyangani River Frog, a species adapted to these remote highland waters.
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