MOUNT EGMONT.

Shannon News, 13 January 1925, Page 3

MOUNT EGMONT.

FREE QF ICE. NUMEROUS ALPINISTS. The Taranaki Herald, in its issue oi Saturday, reported that chinning conditions on Mount Egrnont Rad been improving all mat week, and advice bad been received uiat, snouid me weather remain line and warm, me summit would be. easily accessible tne following day 'by climbers who were Without ice-axes and such equipment.

Un Friday last hard ice had to ne traversed during about the last 4uu leet, but the s.un was melting it very rapidly and. on Saturday afternoon it was expected tQ he possible to reach the edge of the crater pn rock. By Sunday, though there would still be ice and snow in the depressions, the track, following a ridge, should be clear. Entering the crater, beside a steep ice slope, mere is a wire rope which gives safe support for climbers.

“Hundreds of people,” adds the Herald, “have been on the slopes, but most, not having proper equipment, have not been ahie to proceed higher than the beginning of the ice—if tney were, energetic enough to gp that far. Several dozens, however, have .actually reached the summit. “A large proportion of the .visitors during the holidays have been motorists pn tour. For instance, no fewer than IQ parties from Auckland, equipped with camping outfits, have called at the old mountain house; some, of them during the wet weather when it was not possible to make use of their own equipment, and they slept indoors. On some nights the house has been literally crowded tp the doors.