How to prove the Divergence of cesaro mean of harmonic series

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How do you prove that the Cesàro mean of the harmonic series diverges.

I know that the harmonic serie

$$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{k}$$ diverges,

However, I'm having trouble proving that it also diverges in the sense of Cesaro.

I have that

$$\sigma_n = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{m =1}^n \sum_{k =1}^m \frac{1}{k}$$

So, we can write

$$\sigma_n = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^n \frac{1}{k}\sum_{m=k}^{n}1$$ and then we have $$\sigma_n = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^n \frac{1}{k}(n+1-k)$$ but then I dont know how to continue. I thought that maybe the $\limsup_{n\geq k} \sigma(n)$ could maybe help but i'm really stuck and would appreciate any help!