Glaciers are vanishingly rare in Africa, confined to a handful of high-altitude peaks near the equator, where rapidly shrinking ice caps remain among the continent's most striking and increasingly fragile natural features.
The destinations on this list range from high-altitude equatorial ice caps requiring serious mountaineering experience to reach to permanent snowfields clinging to the highest peaks for what may be a limited number of years longer.
Visiting sooner rather than later matters more here than almost anywhere else, given how rapidly the continent's remaining glacial ice is retreating. Local guiding companies can advise on current ice conditions, which have changed considerably even within the past decade. Packing for extreme cold also matters considerably given the altitude involved in reaching these sites.
