MOUNTAINEERING

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1932, Page 2

MOUNTAINEERING

UNKNOWN COL CROSSED. STRENUOUS WEEK’S CLIMBING. The first rehorded crossing ,of the n.'Unknow'BftCoh endHth«incuinibai»g!«£i wte or two virgin peaks thereon formed the major pert of the achievements or three members of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club who spent a week in crossing the divide sby little known routes into Wustlaud. * The party went up the Waimakariri '/River on Good Friday to the Carrington Hut. On the following, day they /journeyed to the Park-Morpeth Hut ma the Taipo-iti Gorge, Harman Pass, ..the Whitehorn Pass and Cronin {Glacier and river. By Monday they •reached the top of the Unknown Col (■per medium of a glacier. ■, At the top they dumped their packs 'and climbed the. virgin peak. Descending to the col the climbers went -down toward the Mathias River. Camp was pitch id near the junction of the Canyon Creek and the (Mathias. Tuesday was spent in resting and locating Dobson’s Track, which saved about fifteen crossings of the river. From the top of the Mathias Pass a descent was made to the head waters of the Hokitika River. Finally, after crossing the Hokitika about half a mile above its junction with the Whitcombe by means of a cradle on a wire rope, the reached Hokitika on Friday evening following a horse track to -oiterangi.