The First Person to Climb Mount Kilimanjaro

The first recorded ascent of Kilimanjaro’s highest summit is credited to Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtscheller in 1889. Tanzanian guide Yohani Kinyala Lauwo is associated with the expedition’s success. “First recorded ascent” is more precise than assuming that the written expedition record establishes the first person ever to set foot on every part of the […]