ASCENT OF MR. HOLDSWORTH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10300, 1 August 1911, Page 5

ASCENT OF MR. HOLDSWORTH.

A WINTER TRIP.

The ascent of Mount Holds worth ' in tli© winter time has not been I performed by many mouiiiiair.^ca-iiig,' entliaisdaisto. This feat, 'however, was performed on Saturday and Sunday las/thy a party'of young Mastertoniiamis, consisting of Messrs Raymond Lee, H. Pry or and W. O'Brien. •The party left- Masterton.. at four o'clock on Saturday, and .arrived at Itho mountain'at labout.bsveu, where they 'oatrhip,?d; : in 'the wllla.ro.'for the nigh*. They left ■ again at seven o'clock tuex't morning, end after strenuous climbing reached the summit at eleven) o'cllock. They found the trade in splendid order, and on the iwfhole. bettor than in tho 'summer months, the rain having Avashed the | mud away, leaving the path hard and dry. The smoAv; was very thnck just before racliing the snow line, and the trig station, AA-as a mass of ioioles. The weather, was bitterly cold, and. the party could only stay a. lew .minutes a.t,the. top. Unfortunately, okxudis obscured the vieAv from tlie top, although the isurrounding landscape could be plainly absorbed from a lower altdtn3e. In the descent the party-report having enr joyed immensely they termed tobogganing on a small seaie. They secured isame good- sp&oittieiiis ; of mountain. fla.x and • Spanish spear grass from the ltop.