Keeping Mount Kenya Clean
The Kikuyu and other tribes venerated Mount Kenya - Kirinyaga - as the dwelling place of the supreme God, Ngai . If you went beyond the peaks, some thought,  © 2003 by Rough Guides Ltd. as trustee for its Authors. Published by Rough Guides. All rights reserved. Rough Guides name is a trademark of Rough Guides Ltd. Buy the book here!
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you would find him. Medicine men and diviners routinely trekked up the mountain to seek his guidance, miraculous cures, or simply inspiration. Nowadays, it's mainly tourists who retread their steps: some 15,000 each year. Few of them, it seems, particularly respect, never mind venerate, the old mountain god, and several dozen tonnes of rubbish are left on its sides every year, only part of which is removed (mainly by boy scouts and other voluntary groups). Please take your trash down with you.
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