SOUTHERN ALPS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1932, Page 3

SOUTHERN ALPS

THE Fills r SURVEY. The name Mount Cook, was given to the alpine monarch by Captain Lock Stokes, cf H.M.'S. Acheron, while on n. survey cruise between 1847 -and 18-VJ, Rue mminaiu being surveyed from the sea. Though it was known soon after the arrival of the first runholuens that 1 <*- yond Lake Tekapo and Lake Pukaki lay a great assemblage of high peaks, it was not until 18(52, when Sir Julius von liaa'-t. announced the result of his explorations on hehalf of the Can erhnry Piovincj; 1 Government—he wr.s engaged in a geological sunny with Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson as tepographi<a I istunt that any author itativ-’ dis lipti-m of the region was published. Tile glade s wore hr.-,t explored bv L. I’. Koa'y, the surveyor, who traversed tin* Miulhr and Ifookci glaciers in 1897, and wlio, in IS/0. went up the Trsmall a s far as Do la Roche earner, in 1882 the first atlempl ."t serious (limbing in the legion was made by the |L’V. S. Croon, who, with Kniil Mass and a professional Swifs guide, succeeded in reaching tile ice cap of Cook niter three attempts. The first complete ascent of Moan.: Cook was made in 1894 from the Hooker side by I* vie, Clark, and Ceorge Graham, and in 1900 Miss b re,da du Faur gained the honour of being the first woman to reach the summit.