| Mount Satima | |
| Elevation M: | 4001 |
| Elevation Ref: | [1] [2] |
| Prominence M: | 2081 |
| Listing: | Ultra |
| Location: | Kenya |
| Range: | Aberdare Range |
| Map: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | -0.3497°N 36.6167°W |
Mount Satima, also known as Mount Lesatima and often abbreviated to Satima or Lesatima, is the third-highest mountain in Kenya and the highest in the Aberdare Range. The Maasai name is Oldoinyo Lesatima, which has a variety of alternative spellings, such as Ol Donyo Le Satima, and means "mountain of the bull calf".[3]
The peak lies at the northern end of the Aberdares, which themselves are along the eastern side of the Great Rift Valley, and is their highest point. Around it stand a number of sharp volcanic cones called "the Dragon's Teeth".[4] There are moraines between 3600m (11,800feet) and 3800m (12,500feet) on the north west of the mountain.[5] One book on Kenya has called the mountain itself "a craggy bluff of rock and tussock grass around which the clouds swirl".[6]