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the snow level. The next expedition was that of 

 J. E. S. Moore, who was the first to reach the snow 

 and to demonstrate beyond doubt the existence of 

 glaciers in Ruwenzori. Moore climbed to the sum- 

 mit of one of the ridges of Ingomwimbi or Kiyanja 

 or (as it is now called) Mount Baker, at a point 

 close to the rock reached subsequently by Herr 

 Grauer's party. In the same year (1900) Sir Harry 

 Johnston succeeded in arriving almost at the same 

 point as Moore, and in 1903 Mr. and Mrs. Fischer 

 climbed to the foot of the Mubuku glacier, but did 

 not ascend farther. Mrs. Fischer was the first, and 

 is hitherto the only, European woman to visit the 

 snows of Ruwenzori. But it was not until 1905 

 that a really serious attempt was made by a party 

 of mountaineers to solve some of the problems of the 

 range. Messrs. Douglas Freshfield and A. L. Mumm, 

 with the guide, Moritz Inderbinnen, of Zermatt, 

 spent several days in November at the head of the 

 Mubuku Valley trying to force a way to the summit 

 of one of the ridges, but the abominably wet weather 

 made mountaineering an impossibility, and they 

 were compelled to beat a retreat. The party, whose 

 mountaineering experience is too well known to 

 need mention here, was equipped with everything 

 necessary for making explorations, and had they not 

 been misled most unfortunately by the statements of 

 previous travellers into selecting one of the wettest 

 months of the year for their expedition, there can be 

 little doubt but that they would have been completely 



