Mont-Aux-Sources

Mont-aux-Sources is a mountain in Southern Africa that is part of the Drakensberg Range's highest peaks. It is mostly in Lesotho, with some parts in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal and Free State provinces.

The peak can be reached via chain ladders from the Sentinel Car Park near Witsieshoek. The Mont-Aux-Sources is part of a basalt plateau that rises to about 3,050 meters above sea level (10 000 ft). A sheer wall of 330 vertical meters, known as the Amphitheatre and the Sentinel, is one of the many escarpments that surround the plateau. The highest point is a peak 3 kilometers from the Drakensberg escarpment that rises to 3,282 meters.

The hilly terrain was dubbed mont aux Sources by French missionaries who visited the region in 1836 because key rivers have their sources in the range.

The Tugela, which runs eastward into the Indian Ocean on the KwaZulu-Natal coast, is one of several rivers that begin in the Mont-Aux-Sources. The Tugela plunges 947 meters in a sequence of falls in the Royal Natal National Park, about 7 kilometers from Mont-Aux-Sources. This is the world's second-highest series of falls.

Elevation: 10,768 feet

Location: Lesotho, South Africa