Three Peaks challenges in Mali

The landscapes of Mali

Mali extends from southern savanna through the Sahel into the Sahara. Across that broad inland span, isolated hills, escarpments and rugged uplands interrupt more extensive plains, creating distinct landscape regions rather than one continuous mountain chain.

Hombori's sandstone landforms rise in central Mali, while the Adrar des Ifoghas occupies a northeastern Saharan setting. Farther southwest, the Manding hills belong to another upland region. Between them, extensive plains and the Niger's inland delta create a very different scale of landscape from the country's isolated rocky high ground.