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Faith Mwende, the first Kenyan woman to attempt a climb on Mt Everest. [FILE]
Back in 1883, Joseph Thomson, a Scottish geologist, walked from Mombasa to Lake Victoria. He mapped the land and sketched what would later become Kenya.
He described the Rift Valley‘s cliffs, noted its geological features and blazed trails that helped colonisers profit without sharing. Fast forward 142 years, and Kenyans are walking those same paths again.
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