The Discover}' of liuwenzori. 



taken sucli measures for carrying it into ettect, as collecting- 

 material and preparing details of equipment, the range was 

 already being attacked by determined mountain climbers bent 

 uijon rending the yeil of mystery which had so long shrouded 

 its secret. 



In Noyember, 11)05, tor the hrst time in the history of 

 Kuwenzori, a party of expert mountaineers, Douglas W. 

 Freshfield and A. L. Munun with the guide Moritz Inderbinnen 

 ot* Zermatt, arrived in the Mobuku Valley. They found the 

 season especially unfavourable. After waiting for a long time 

 at the upper end of tlie valley they were forced, by uninter- 

 rupted rains, to abandon the undertaking. They had succeeded 

 in making one attempt, in the course of which Mumm had 

 ascended the glacier, but without reaching the ridge. 



In January, 1906, the Rev. A. B. Fisher, with his courageous 

 \yife, went up the Mobuku Glacier for the second time. In 

 the same year an Austrian mountaineer, R. Grauer, with two 

 English missionaries, H. E. Maddox and the Rev. H. W, Tegart, 

 who during the preceding year had attained to an altitude 

 of 14,000 feet on the Mobuku Glacier, climbed the high 

 terminal rido-e of tlie valley which had not been reached since 

 1901. They ascended to the summit of a small rocky peak which 

 rises on a depression in the ridge to a height of 15,000 feet 

 aboye the sea. This peak Grauer named after King Edward. 



Finally, in October, 1905, a scientitic expedition, sent out 

 by the Britisli Museum to study the fauna and flora of 

 Ruwenzori, started from London under the direction of 

 H. B. Woosnam. The other members of this expedition were 

 G. Legge, R. E. Dent, M. Carruthers and A. F. R. Wollaston, 

 a member of the Alpine Club. This expedition spent several 

 weeks in tlie Mobuku Valley to collect scientific material, and 



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