Local Culture
The main ethnic groups living around Mount Kenya are Kĩkũyũ, Ameru, Embu and Maasai. The first three are closely related. They all see the mountain as an important aspect of their cultures. All these cultures arrived in the Mount Kenya area in the last several hundred years.
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