Claudius Ptolemy an armchair Alexandrian geographer of the then Greek Empire gathered snipetts of information and rumors from Arab traders in Africa around the year 150 AD that the snow capped mountain existed in the heart of Africa and they considered them to be the source of the Nile. Ptolemy named them the Mountains of the Moon. However it was Henry Stanley a English journalist-explorer who on the 24th May 1888 confirmed the existence of the Mountains of the Moon. However Stanley was not the first to gatch a glimpse of the Mountains of the Moon, Samuel Baker and Romolo Gessi had suceeded in g=catching a glimpse of the great mountainous masses far away in the distance. The following year in 1889 Henry Stanley was again in the Ruwenzori area where is spent several months and instructed his Deputy W.G.Stairs to carry out a short explorative trip to the heart of the imposing mountains. He advances to an altitude of 3,254m where he manages to observe the snow-capped peaks. Stanley reffered to the mountains in its local name of Rwenjura – or ‘rainmaker’.