Across East African Glaciers An Account of the First Ascent of Kilimanjaro
by Meyer, Dr Hans
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London & Liverpool: George Philip & Son, 1891. First edition. With the first map but lacking the other two maps, with a chromolithograph colour frontispiece, twelve plain lithograph plates and eight mounted photographs, nineteen text illustratons, large thick octavo, pp xx, 404, a little foxing and age-toning throughout, an inscription on the half-title, with two small library stamps on the title page [Kenya Carnegie Circulating Libraries and McMillan Memorial Library], an accession stamp on the verso of the title page, stoutly bound in grey cloth. [Meyer was a German geographer and traveller. In 1887, during his first attempt to climb Kilimanjaro, Meyer reached the base of Kibo, but was forced to turn back. He did not have the equipment necessary to handle the deep snow and ice on Kibo. In 1888, alongside the Austrian cartographer Oscar Baumann, he explored the Usambara region, with designs of continuing on to Mount Kilimanjaro. However, the two explorers could not proceed on, due to events related with the so-called Abushiri Revolt. Baumann and Meyer, within a matter of days, were captured and held as prisoners. Only after a large ransom was paid to rebel leader Abushiri ibn Salim al-Harthi were the two men released. In 1889 Meyer returned to Kilimanjaro with the celebrated Austrian mountaineer Ludwig Purtscheller and Yohane Lauwo, a Chagga guide for a third attempt. Their climbing team included two local headmen, nine porters, a cook, and a guide. After Meyer and Purtscheller pushed to near the crater rim on 3 October before retreating to the base of Kibo, they reached the summit on the southern rim of the crater on Purtscheller's 40th birthday, 6 October 1889. Meyer named this summit - now known as Uhuru Point- "Kaiser Wilhelm Spitze". After descending to the saddle between Kibo and Mawenzi, they attempted to climb Mawenzi next, but only reached a subsidiary peak (Klute Peak) before retreating due to illness. In Meyer's honor, the highest summit of Mawenzi nevertheless is known as Hans Meyer Peak. The summit of Kibo would not be climbed again until 20 years later, and the first ascent of Hans Meyer Peak was only in 1912.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Across East African Glaciers An Account of the First Ascent of Kilimanjaro
- Author
- Meyer, Dr Hans
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George Philip & Son
- Place of Publication
- London & Liverpool
- Date Published
- 1891
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Mountaineering & Caving;
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