MOUNTAINEERING.
A 35 HOURS’ CLIMB. (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, last night. Mr S. Turner, the well-known English mountaineer, telegraphs to the editor of the Lyttelton Times: "My expedition made tbo first travel from Tasman Glaoioe over tho highest summit of Mount Cook down to the Hooker Glacier, after 37 hours’ continuous climbing I was struck on tho head with a stone whilo on an ice column, and experienced a narrow escape."
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1649, 16 January 1906, Page 2
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71MOUNTAINEERING. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1649, 16 January 1906, Page 2
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