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Who reached the summit of Batian on Mount Kenya in 1899?
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East African mountains
Mountains and lakes of East Africa.
In 1899, the British geographer Halford John Mackinder reached the summit of Batian on Mount Kenya alongside his Swiss guides, César Ollier and Joseph Brocherel.12