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Who first reached the summit of Kibo on Kilimanjaro in 1889?
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East African mountains
Mountains and lakes of East Africa.
The Kibo summit of Kilimanjaro was first reached in 1889 by the German geographer Hans Meyer and the Austrian mountaineer Ludwig Purtscheller.12