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Mount Kenya is the main water catchment area for two large rivers in Kenya; the Tana, the largest river in Kenya, and the Ewaso Nyiro North. [11] The Mount Kenya ecosystem provides water directly for over 2 million people. [11] The rivers on Mount Kenya have been named after the villages on the slopes of the mountain that they flow close to.
In 1848, with the Swahili guide Bwana Kheri, Rebmann was the first European to see Mount Kilimanjaro. The following year, he saw Mount Kenya together with his colleague Krapf. [11] [12] On the October 16, 1847, the two men set out for the interior of Kenya. With them came eight tribesmen and a local caravan leader named Bwana Kheri.
The current name Mount Kenya was used by some as early as 1894, [20] but this was not a regular occurrence until 1920 when Kenya Colony was established. [21] Before 1920 the area now known as Kenya was known as the British East Africa Protectorate and so there was no need to mention mount when referring to the mountain. [21]
They were the first Europeans to see Mount Kenya with the help of Akamba who dwelled at its slopes and Kilimanjaro. Ludwig Krapf visited Ukambani, the homeland of the Kamba people, in 1849 and again in 1850. He successfully translated the New Testament to the Kamba language. Krapf also played a key role in exploring the East African coastline ...
The Government of Kenya had four reasons for creating a national park on and around Mount Kenya. These were the importance of tourism for the local and national economies , to preserve an area of great scenic beauty, to conserve the biodiversity within the park, and to preserve the water-catchment for the surrounding area.
Teleki was the first to reach the snow-line on Mount Kilimanjaro at 5,300 m (17,400 ft), and the first explorer to set foot on Mount Kenya, climbing up to around 4,300 m (14,100 ft). He later headed on northwards, following the interior river system, to see on 5 March 1888 the last of the African Great Lakes , referred to as the Jade Sea by ...
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Kenya Mountain is a non-fiction book written by E. A. T. Dutton about his trip up Mount Kenya in 1926. The original book was published in 1929 by Jonathan Cape in London, and contains a preface by Dutton and an introduction by Hilaire Belloc. There is also a fold out map of the route taken by Melhuish and Dutton in 1926. [1]