In the first of a two-part Top Gear special, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are in Africa with a simple mission - to find the definitive source of the Nile. Show more In the first ...

The source of the Nile has been sought after for millennia to no avail. But today I take a look at where this question comes from, those who tried to solve it, and why.

[The Nile river] comes from a very huge lake of the [African] lands," the account reads. That description sounds very much like Murchison Falls, a gorge between Lake Victoria (the source of the ...