MAPS AT FAULT

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 8, 10 January 1934, Page 6

MAPS AT FAULT

CLIMBING PARTY'S CLAIM

Several inaccuracies in the surveymaps of the upper Bangitata region are reported by a party of four members of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club who climbed eight peaks in tlie main divide region during the Christmas and New Year holidays (says the Christchurch "Star"). Tho party included a civil engineer, who by means of compass bearings and boiling point apparatus checked off tho location of glaciers and tho-hoights of peaks. The' party claim that the main divide, instead of running in a straight line from Mount Edison to the Donnistbun Pass, turns at right angles at Mount Edison in towards the upper Havelock and then sweeps, back to the former line.

Tho rivers were in high flood when tho party- started their journey from the Erewhon Station just before Christmas. Af tor climbing Cloudy Peak (7870 feet) they made their base camp at the -.-junction of tho Frances and Agnes Glaciors.

Nino inches of snow feil in one. night there, -but on December 30 the party went up to the Colin Campbell Glacier and made the ascent of Mount Tyndall (8282 feet), Newton Peak (8400 feet), and Baker Peak (7510 feet). Mount Cook was seen in the wonderful panorama from Mount Tyndall.

Bad weather was experienced during the climbing of two unnamed peaks on New Year's Day, and a nor'west storm came on as the party were coming down after an ascent of. a virgin peak in the Cloudy Peak range on January 2. The rivers had subsided when the climbers mad.c their forty-mile return trip on foot, via the Potts Elver, Hakatcre Station, and to Mount Somers.