Mount Satima, also known as Mount Lesatima and often abbreviated to Satima or Lesatima, is the third-highest mountain in

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and the highest in the

Aberdare Range The Aberdare Range (formerly the Sattima Range, Kikuyu: ''Nyandarua'') is a 160 km (100 mile) long mountain range of upland, north of Kenya's capital Nairobi with an average elevation of . It straddles across the counties of Nyandarua, Nye ...

. The

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name is Oldoinyo Lesatima, which has a variety of alternative spellings, such as Ol Donyo Le Satima, and means "mountain of the bull calf". The peak lies at the northern end of the Aberdares, which themselves are along the eastern side of the

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, and is their highest point. Around it stand a number of sharp

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cones called "the Dragon's Teeth". There are

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s between and on the north west of the mountain. One book on Kenya has called the mountain itself "a craggy bluff of rock and

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around which the clouds swirl".Mohamed Amin, Duncan Willetts, Brian Tetley, ''Kenya: the magic land'' (Bodley Head, 1988), p. 126

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Weather for Oldoinyo Lesatima
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