Finding the Source of the Nile River

The source of the Nile has been sought after for millennia to no avail. But today I take a look at where this question comes from, those who tried to solve it, and why. Who knows, maybe by the end we'll even get an answer to our question, as well as get a glimpse into Africa's future. Support me on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/atlaspro Follow me on Twitter @theatlaspro Music from: https://soundcloud.com/atlas-pro-music Special thanks to WonderWhy for guest appearing as Dr. David Livingstone, subscribe to his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/WonderWhy7439 Sources / further reading https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/7/419/2013/tc-7-419-2013.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwenzori_Mountains#/media/File:Explorer_Chapin_with_Club_Flag_-4.JPG https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/03/world/africa/last-chance-disappearing-glaciers/index.html#:~:text=The%20Rwenzori%20glaciers%20occur%20on,than%200.4%20square%20miles%20today. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/some-observations-on-the-glaciers-of-mt-kenya/D59359EE2EDB4606BB60BC41DDE0D34B https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/11205/1/2006GL025962.pdf https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/life-glacier.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_exploration_of_Africa#/media/File:1813_Thomson_Map_of_Africa_-_Geographicus_-_Africa-thomson-1813.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinine#/media/File:Cinchona_calisaya_-_K%C3%B6hler%E2%80%93s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-179.jpg https://www.nature.com/articles/062012a0 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/5/174/htm https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1955_files/AJ60%201955%20270-275%20Howard%20Mt%20Kenya.pdf https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1965_files/AJ%201965%20294-296%20Phillips%20Mt%20Kenya.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774261?seq=1 https://books.google.com/books?id=HcDR7nTiVAYC https://archive.org/details/howifoundliving01stangoog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Livingstone#/media/File:Map_livingstone_travels_africa.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kilimanjaro#/media/File:Der-Kilimandscharo.jpg https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Morton-Stanley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kilimanjaro#/media/File:Kilimanjaro_dymamics2.jpg https://blogs.agu.org/fromaglaciersperspective/2010/05/20/rwenzori-glacier-retreat-loss/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/observations-on-the-glaciers-of-the-ruwenzori/7BCB60F57D2A3B09D9E3F05F01D0FC7E https://www.thestoryinstitute.com/rwenzori-mountains https://archive.instituteartistmanagement.com/?49800532755136778403&EVENT=WEBSHOP_SEARCH&OFFER=1767&SEARCHMODE=OFFER https://na.unep.net/geas/getuneppagewitharticleidscript.php?article_id=90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCbWOiqYOgY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emin_Pasha_Relief_Expedition#/media/File:Emin_pasha_relief_expedition_map_1890.png https://www.nkuringosafaris.com/the-rwenzori-mountains/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jun/03/melting-glaciers-rwenzori-uganda-congo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_exploration_of_Africa#/media/File:1813_Thomson_Map_of_Africa_-_Geographicus_-_Africa-thomson-1813.jpg https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Natural-distribution-of-Cinchona-pubescens-modified-after-Andersson-1998-Jaeger_fig1_281129770 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ice-retreat-over-Kilimanjaro-based-on-the-revised-areal-extent-for-the-following-years_fig1_257566952 https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/89605/the-zones-of-kilimanjaro https://www.africanworldheritagesites.org/assets/files/Maps_&_Satellite_Images_of_the_Rwenzori_Mountains_National_Park.pdf https://www.intelligence-airbusds.com/en/5751-image-gallery-details?img=33704#.YUon8WZKjzc https://na.unep.net/geas/getuneppagewitharticleidscript.php?article_id=90 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Map_of_the_routes_of_The_Emin_Pasha_Relief_Expedition_Wellcome_L0034371.jpg https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Pierre-Savorgnan-de-Brazza-1852-1905_fig1_295255142 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774261 https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1989-90_files/AJ%201989%20154-161%20Gates%20Mackinder.pdf https://blogs.agu.org/fromaglaciersperspective/2012/03/13/tyndall-glacier-retreat-kenya/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/s-hastenrath-2008-recession-of-equatorial-glaciers-a-photo-documentation-madison-wi-sundog-publishing-142pp-isbn13-978-0-9729033-3-2-softback-us80/E8F9DFE32C3B106BDE8FD5AAEC0381CC https://www.jstor.org/stable/25647750 https://www.google.com/search?q=mt+kenya+glacier+retreat&oq=mt+kenya+glacier+retreat&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i22i29i30l2.6627j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#:~:text=Mapping%20the%20Loss,mdpi.com%20%E2%80%BA%20pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/equatorial-glaciers-of-east-africa/08F939EA39FD6CD0E2CEF2004C8AE0BA