What is the title of Hemingway's short story set on Mount Kilimanjaro?

The title of Hemingway’s short story set on Mount Kilimanjaro is “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”

First published in Esquire magazine in August 1936, the story opens with an image of a frozen leopard near the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. That mysterious image establishes the story’s atmosphere of danger, death, memory, and spiritual reckoning.

The central character is Harry, a writer stranded on safari with a badly infected leg. As gangrene advances, he reflects on the experiences he intended to transform into literature but never wrote down. His memories move through war, travel, love, poverty, and artistic regret, while his companion Helen tries to care for him.

Readers sometimes confuse the title with Hemingway’s 1961 short-story collection, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories. The collection takes its name from the story and includes other works such as “The Killers” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”