TAUPO.
This day.
Messrs Beatham and Maxwell from Wellington have successfully performed the feat of ascending the highest Southern peak of Euapehu. Two days were lost in abortive attempts to find a practicable point to ascend, but on the third day they succeeded, after a great deal of climbing and toiling over rocks, boulders, and clinkers. On arriving within a short distance of the summit— their object being to get at the highest point of the mountain—they were necessitated to cross from the lower peak to the highest one by means of a snowy saddle connecting the two, and which might be compared to the ridge of a house, a slip from which would mean a slip of thousands of feet sire on either side,. After crossing this, they reached the highest peak, and found a crater with an inner basin free from snow, of great depth, and about a mile wide; from this point hitherto untrodden by human foot a splendid view of the surrounding country was obtained. Time occupied in ascent and decent was 13 hours.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3144, 17 March 1879, Page 2
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178TAUPO. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3144, 17 March 1879, Page 2
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