Clinton, 65, now faces persistent questions about whether she will mount a second White House run in 2016 to break perhaps the highest remaining glass ceiling.
From the 16, 000-foot summit of Point Lenana, one of three peaks that comprise the Mount Kenya massif, we can see Kilimanjaro's shiny white dome rising to the south, the blue of the Indian Ocean lying to the east, and a lush green canopy of jungle spreading to the north.
In the acacia-dotted savannahs of the Solio Private Reserve, beneath the snow-capped horn of Mount Kenya, we were hoping to catch a glimpse of a solitary black or white rhino tending to its young.