ALPINE HUT BUILT ON PIONEER RIDGE.—A party of five mountaineers recently completed a 14ft by 10ft hut on Pioneer Ridge at the head of the Fox Glacier. The a to new out a flat surface from huge boulders on the ridge at an altitude of 8200 ft. Building materials, dropped by aircraft of the R.N.Z.A.F., were transferred from here to the hu t site by a “flying fox.” LEFT: A member of the party climbing a rock face to the hut site. RIGHT: Preparing part of the hut before putting it up.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27010, 9 April 1953, Page 3
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92ALPINE HUT BUILT ON PIONEER RIDGE.—A party of five mountaineers recently completed a 14ft by 10ft hut on Pioneer Ridge at the head of the Fox Glacier. The a to new out a flat surface from huge boulders on the ridge at an altitude of 8200 ft. Building materials, dropped by aircraft of the R.N.Z.A.F., were transferred from here to the hut site by a “flying fox.” LEFT: A member of the party climbing a rock face to the hut site. RIGHT: Preparing part of the hut before putting it up. Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27010, 9 April 1953, Page 3
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