The 10,359 ft Mount Sefton was climbed on Tuesday by Messrs G. Harris. P. Gouch, and J. Andrews, of Otematata, and G. Dingle, of Wellington. Mount Sefton is in the left background of the photograph above, taken as a Cessna ski-equipped aircraft was leaving the Hermitage airstrip on a tourist flight while the party was making its ascent.
Mount Sefton has beer climbed many times fron the west.
North-westerly conditions with rain were expert enced in the area yestei day, said Ranger Jones.
The climb was described by Ranger T. Jones, of the Mount Cook National Park Board’s headquarters, as a very good ascent accomplished on only a few occasions by the route followed.
“It was a variation on the precipitous east-face climb, not the complete ascent of the east face,” danger Jones said.
The climbers set out from Sefton bivouac early in the morning, traversed to Tuckett Col and across the face of Mount Sefton, and then climbed to the summit, which they reached at 3 p.m. Ranger Jones said the party was returning to the Hermitage area by way of Copland Pass.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31563, 28 December 1967, Page 1
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