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It took until nearly the end of the nineteenth century for explorers to even persuade the outside world that such a mountain could exist. When the German missionary Johann Rebmann first reported the existence of mountain peaks covered in snow on the equator, he was ridiculed. European geographers insisted that he had mistaken for snow chalky rocks or earth on the summit of the mountain. It was not until the Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson reported back to the Royal Geographical Society that he had seen with his own eyes 'a gleaming snow-white peak with sparkling facets, which scintillated with the superb beauty of a colossal diamond' that the mountain's existence was at last admitted in Europe.

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