GREAT CLIMBER'S DEATH

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 10

GREAT CLIMBER'S DEATH

CONRAD KAIN IS STILL HKMKMIIKIiKD I'EAK IS NAMED A 1 IEK HIM Advice !;: biin ior.\nl of tlu; u.a'n ef Cei;ail K:r.', nmimheiad ov climber: ;i -i «'Vi r tl'.e v. eild as I,; j,,.. among ih.- b"-t v, >u> htv ever Ikcm ,n New Zealand. He climbed V,-'V e.\ten'-ivriv in the l.ubn' Hange, i; ml Mount fenvi.il that re!:"ni en d alter hii". , H>' di-d in i i Pebi ar.ry hi mg then a-eit at^.i.:

(i.ill I .;U'u>:!l' 1)1 ll : ~ iHC. Ml.-* 'I ;., [ I!. <, 1.. ler.su ily e( \\ i llir:! ! eM, on n.'W Uviiei in Ciiris'i.'iiurch, nut!: '11" a splendid gin<ie, with tne gin''.' new reinc.-. lie r.i,i. 1,„.H a ne'.v route unle.-s it rli'iism lri'i U, .iu -e Ceir.pcter.t tir.tt lie wa ; the lini st inountansce: ulio iait ii. New 7.t-iland. 1 am sir 1 - ni and snd to hear <-i h:< deatn Ii > n was halt Au.-.i w.i a i.: 11;, a:: 1. i.i'eW.n up ::i 1 i.-.ul nii'iiniaiuecrii:-; in h .- |.'!e< d. ( 1 w v. fit to Switzerland early l.i and lanaily c;tablished a !,.(• lunif e!i" ni a very ii:<e ',a.ui. Ac clipibl'd a good deal in Corsica a!-e. It" v. ent from fatrepe to Canan... clnnbM'g all Hie in-tier-known peak:-', and ;u'Ung in a private capacity lev elimbi rs. In skiek times lie v.ei t n : j>» til" baek-e»untry irapninu. svimc fi; ,' S ;iviin; for ineniks iii.cen,i, a Eurooean. Willi a Canadian e'ei.ieer. A-r Ut.e l'."!i;d. who hud i : :Mgi.d b.:.i. r.c t a.re to New Zealand ji;*: "V' v.; i . Tiu-y e: : tabl :sii(" 1 ti eir l.cao* i:m;iel< ; ; at the i ld l!cr:n:U'S!'.;. t»:>d climbed i xteie ive'y < in the e'i-ua". a-renriing maev peak- tleie H>r t.v; ih-.-t time. Kaie returned to Canada v,::)i Air Erind. hill soon returnee New Zealand, and climbed extensively tit the f.t ibig Kange, hetw een th.e Aleri 1:i:on glacier and the Ooilley ceunin inc sea.in oi 191(e Kain reUirned to Canada neat >ca ir.iirried, and left tninuitaineer.nz to lake no a ii.:iJ; farm. On bie dcain ..I his' v. :fe a fev.y yea;". a o o he reluiaied > inuiti'kiini'i'i'iiin, and a' Jianti !,*i.-t yi.:::- he was seen liy K.t'e (.tai diiv.n'. who ra.d he had grown very old. Kiiin was n inos' e:itertai!nn:t g'.nde. aiai had a ureal lund et arin.-ini; anecdotes. He climbed all the nnporta; ' peaks in the Cook district. It is said of hini that when he first climbed th.e peak which i- named alter him. hj.: wa- s'j delighted that the ordinary stent' cairn would net satisfy him. He was not content till he had built one to the same height as himself, which was something more than six feet. It is believed that Mount Conrad has no l , been climbed since.