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Who first reported seeing the snow-covered summit of Kilimanjaro in 1848?
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East African mountains
Mountains and lakes of East Africa.
In May 1848, the German missionary Johannes Rebmann became the first European to report seeing the snow-covered summit of Kilimanjaro.12
Although he and his associate, Johann Ludwig Krapf, are credited with bringing knowledge of the mountain to Europe, their accounts of snow-capped peaks located so close to the Equator were initially met with disbelief by the scientific community for more than a decade.13