Who was the first missionary to see the Victoria Falls?
David Livingstone, became the first recorded European. to see Victoria Falls, after being guided there by local. tribesmen.
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David Livingstone 'discovered' the Falls in 1855, the local Batonga people had named them Mosi-oa-Tunya, 'the smoke that thunders'. Livingstone named them for his queen.
Originally known as the Old Drift, Livingstone owes its existence primarily to the Victoria Falls and was established as a staging point across the Zambezi River. The town is named after Dr. David Livingstone, the first European to see, name and publicise the Falls.
In comparison, Victoria Falls is the world's largest sheet of falling water and is almost double the height of Niagara Falls and half a kilometer wider. In the wet season, the spray from Victoria Falls can rise 400m above the falls and can be seen from up to 48km away.
Only one photo-loving tourist is known to have fallen at the Victoria Falls and survived. Wang Shunxue, a Chinese tourist was lucky to be pulled alive from a horrific fall in November 2013.
This is the haunting last photo of a man taken seconds before he mysteriously toppled off a cliff at Victoria Falls during a day out with a friend. The body of Roy George Tinashe Dikinyay, 40, was eventually found 5km downstream from where he fell at the iconic tourist destination in Zimbabwe.
In November 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley located the missing missionary David Livingstone in the depths of Africa. The famous meeting launched Stanley's tumultuous career as an explorer.