The Virunga Mountains rise to nearly 15,000 feet where the borders of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo all converge. On the Rwandan side, the precipitous, cloud-draped slopes are famous as the backdrop for Dian Fossey’s “Gorillas in the Mist.” Today, a quarter century after her death, the tangled forests contain around 375 Mountain Gorillas, or just over half the entire world population.
Learn more in the February 2011 Hideaway Report