EXPEDITION TO THE MOUNT COOK REGION.

Kumara Times, Issue 2055, 31 March 1883, Page 3

EXPEDITION TO THE MOUNT COOK REGION.

Dr. E. von Leudenfeldt, an Austrian naturalist, who during the last year has been studying the invertebrates ot the Australian seas, has lately arrived in Ohristchurch with the intention of staying a. year in New Zealand, and doing a similar study here. As that gentfeman is also an alpine explorer of considerable experience iu the European Alps, not only having ascended most of the principal peaks, bot also having made special surveys of some alpine regions, hitherto scarcely known, he intends to visit our Southern Alps for the same purposes. He left Christchurch at the beginning of this month, accompanied by his wife, who is also a skilled alpine climber, for the Mount Cook regions, where they intend to stay for several weeks. We understand that he has engaged several men at Albury to act as porters, and whom in the absence of guides, he will teach the art of ice and snow travelling. Dr. von Lendenfeldt intends to make a careful survey of the great Tasman Glacier, and if possible to ascend Mount Darwin at the head of that gigantic ice stream. We trust that fine weather will favour this spirited undertaking, and that the results of the journey will further our knowledge of that worderful region, which is sure to attract every year more tourists to our shores. —Press, March 27.