MOUNT TASMAN CLIMBED
FIRST TIME IN TWO YEARS SECOND HIGHEST PEAK 1 Per Pres. Association.! TIMARU, Feb. 28. For the first time in two years, Mount Tasman, the second highest Peak in New Zealand, was climbed on Sunday by Miss C. Irving, of Albury, South Canterbury, with Guides M. Bowie and S. Brookes, of the Hermitage. Symes Ridge was climbed for the third time and fot the first time was used for a descent. Miss Irving is the second woman to reach the summit by the route from the east side since 1914, and no other party including a woman has used the Symes route, a slender ridge of ice and snow rising at a uniformly steep angle direct to. the north shoulder from the Linda j Plateau.
Miss Irving’s climb was made during the longest spell of fine weather above 7000 feet this season, after months of summer snowfalls on the high mountains. She was able to take advantage of the opportunity to climb while the ice was unusually unbroken. The Hermitage guides state that it is difficult to remember a more continuosuly bad climbing season but conditions at the moment are ideal.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 50, 1 March 1939, Page 9
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194MOUNT TASMAN CLIMBED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 50, 1 March 1939, Page 9
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