Solo climb of Caroline Face
PA Timaru A New Zealander, John Barnett, has become the third man to climb the treacherous Caroline Face of Mount Cook (12,349 ft alone. National Park Board rangers said yesterday that Mr Barnett began the climb up the sheer rock and ice wall early on Monday morning, and returned to Mount Cook village at 9 p.m. the same day. Conditions for the climb, rated as difficult by world standards, were good.
The first solo climb of the face was in January, 1972, by Max Dorflinger, and in November the same year it was conquered by a New Zealander, Bill Deans. A three-man party is reported to have scaled the
east face of Mount Cook on Monday, and two men completed a grand traverse of Mount Cook from Empress Hut to the Plateau Hut the same day.
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