“…This paper falls in succession to a number of comprehensive reviews of Quaternary glaciation (Rosqvist, 1990;Kaser and Osmaston, 2002;Osmaston and Harrison, 2005), hydrology (Gasse, 2000), climate dynamics and variability (Nicholson, 1996), vegetation changes (Olago, 2001), late Quaternary climatic change (Livingstone, 1975;Kiage and Liu, 2006), mountain climate and environmental change (Messerli and Winiger, 1992) and equatorial glaciers of East Africa (Hastenrath, 1984;Mahaney, 1989Mahaney, , 1990. To complement and update these previous efforts, this work characterises spatial and temporal dimensions of glacial activity with regard to climate context; it both synthesises the regional patterns and documents chronological and geographical details for palaeoglacier-specific localities.…”