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“At the first rest hut 10,000 up Mt. Kenya. [L to R] Dr Irvine, Miss Shackleton cousin of Mr Carr’s, Mrs Irvine, Mr Carr, who was responsible for starting the work at Chogoria & supporting it for 6 years.” Group portrait of four walkers outside a Mount Kenya bothy. Many climbers used Chogoria as a base from which to climb Mount Kenya. Ernest Carr (1868-1939) was the father of Margaret Joyce Irvine and financed the Chogoria mission in its early days and erected the rest huts on the mountain. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
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