Word: kilimanjaro
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Running north and south from the Red Sea to Mozambique is one vast fissure, the Great Rift Valley. Along one side the molten center of the earth itself spewed upward to form the great volcanic peaks of Kilimanjaro (elevation: 19,565 ft.), Mt. Kenya and the other volcanoes of the east. In its deepest clefts lie Africa's great lakes: Nyasa, Tanganyika and Lake Albert, with Lake Victoria, second in size only to North America's Lake Superior, on the high plateau near by. On either side of the great central rift, Middle Africa's land stretches...
Appearance: Dark, handsome, and so tall-6 ft. 6 in.-that Africans call him "Bwana Kilimanjaro...
...Many of the novels (A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls) and short stories (The Killers, The Snows of Kilimanjaro) of Nobel Prizewinner Ernest Hemingway have long since been translated to the screen, but 20th Century-Fox announced that Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), will finally get a movie treatment with Howard Hawks directing...
Director Henry King (The Snows of Kilimanjaro) and a crew of 40 were sent to South Africa. There, harassed by "snakes, ticks and other insects," and "in the presence of lions," they shot the backgrounds for the picture. For one scene the studio hired 3,000 Zulu warriors, shipped them by plane and oxcart to the Valley of the Thousand Hills in Natal province, and there built a small city named "Zanuckville" to house them...
...past, when the routine at Finca Vigia grew too distracting, Hemingway found escape along grand avenues-a return to the plains below Tanganyika's Kilimanjaro or another trip to Venice, or a nightclub-and-museum-crawling trip to New York. But for the battered and mellowing Hemingway of today, the favorite refuge is his boat...