Nobody has ever climbed the fabled Mountains of Kong. The snow-capped sierra, its foothills reputedly glistening with gold, features on over 40 maps of West Africa. The chain of mountains is generally shown running along the 10th parallel from Tambacounda (today in eastern Senegal), seamlessly connecting to the Mountains of the Moon in Central Africa. But neither range is real. The only thing they both prove is that the geographic imagination abhors the vacuum of blank spaces on the map.
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