A message received from the team read, " I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor, and surviving. "
I'm not a famous explorer, but I think I would go UP the river to look for the source.
How does one go DOWN to the mouth of a river?
What the heck am I talking about? "Team says it finds new source of Nile". Which Nile???
The Nile River of travel posters is a blending of two rivers -- the Blue Nile and the White Nile, which come together at Khartoum in the Sudan; the White Nile flowing in from the east and the Red Sea; the Blue Nile from the southwest in the area of the Congo.
P.S. And yes, the Nile does flow south to north from the African interior to the Med. Sea. I know, I know, its kind of wonkers. But remember, the sources of the Nile are in the (relatively) highlands of Africa and flow downwards -- in this cause north -- to the flat plains of the Egyptian delta.
Did they find King Solomon's mines and the diamonds? God will punish them for this.
Doctor Presume's middle initial was "I".