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Facing Mt Kenya

Challengers going over an obstacle at the Alliance Naro Moru River Lodge. PHOTOS: THORN
MULLI/ STANDARD]

Did you know that Welshman adventurer/trader John Boyes once “bought” the mountain after which our great nation is named from Agikuyu Chief Wang’ombe for the lordly sum of four goats?

It turns out that my Akamba ancestors played a star role in the naming of this mysterious crag.

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