STRENUOUS CLIMB.
ASCENT OF MT. DAMPIER. . SUMMIT REACHED SECOND TIME. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 25. The summit of New Zealand’s third highest peak, Mount Dampier (11,287 feet), was reached for the second time when a successful ascent was made last week by Miss M. Edgare Jones and Guides. J. Cox and S. Brookes, of the Hermitage. The first ascent of Mount Dampier was made 24 years ago by Miss Freda Du Faur and Guides P. Graham and C> Milnes, and several attempts which have been made or planned since then, most of which have in the last four years, have been defeated by the weather, bad conditions or lack of time. Miss Edgare Jones’s party made the first traverse of the mountain, the ascent being made by a new route and the descent including a traverse of St. David’s Dome. It was an arduous climb, the party being on the move continuously for 32 hours with the exception of a peridd of about three hours, during which the climbers, roped to a narrow sloping shelf on the face of the dome, waited for the rising of the moon to enable them to continue their climb.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 26 January 1938, Page 8
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196STRENUOUS CLIMB. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 26 January 1938, Page 8
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