Monte Binga Mountain

Monte Binga is Mozambique's highest peak and Zimbabwe's second-highest peak. It is located in Manica Province in the Chimanimani Mountains, on the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique, in the Chimanimani Transfrontier Park. It rises 8004 feet (2440 meters) above sea level.

The mountain is made of exceptionally hard pale grey Precambrian quartzite, which underpins the entire Chimanimani Plateau, and has a bleak stony look. The north-south quartzite bedding is upturned towards the top of an angle of about 40 degrees and dips to the east, with the mountain's foot and the Turret Towers range lying immediately to the south on a thrust fault. As a result, the eastern approach is gentler, but the western slope is steep to sheer in parts. The northern face is broken off by a fault and is sheer towards the top before descending to a vertical cliff. Approaching Skeleton Pass from the west, from the Bundi River Valley, there is an ill-defined track that forks off from the main smuggler's trail.

Location: Zimbabwe

Elevation: 2,439.6 m (8,004 ft)