The Discovery of Ruwenzori. 
taken such measures for carrying it into effect, as collecting- 
material and preparing details of equipment, the range was 
already being attacked by determined mountain climbers bent 
upon rending the veil of mystery which had so long shrouded 
its secret. 
In November, 1905, for the first time in the history of 
Ruwenzori, a party of expert mountaineers, Douglas W. 
Freshfield and A. L. Mumm with the guide Moritz Inderbinnen 
of Zermatt, arrived in the Mobuku Valley. They found the 
season especially unfavourable. After waiting for a long time 
at the upper end of the 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 
wife, 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 ridge of the 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 
above the sea. This peak Grauer named after King Edward. 
Finally, in October, 1905, a scientific expedition, sent out 
by the British 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 the Mobuku Valley to collect scientific material, and 
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