“Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called by the Masai “Ngàje Ngài,” the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.”
―Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Though only at about twelve feet above local ground level, this coleopterid failed to find adequate shelter at the onset of the Blizzard of ’13. The delicate corpse did not persist into legend; instead, it provided succor for a songbird locked out of its usual larder.