DOUGLAS PEAK

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 9 May 1931, Page 6

DOUGLAS PEAK

the second ascent FIRST WOMAN TO REACH SUMMIT (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Wailio Gorge. May 8. Miss K. Gardiner and Mr L. A. C. England, with Guides Frank Alack and T. Sheeran, Franz Josef Glacier gu dcs, w ere successful in making the ascent of Glac -cr Peak (10,000 feet) and Douglas Peak (10,300 -feet) on 27th and 28tli April, the ascent being made from tlie new hut on Chance]lor Ridge. The route followed was across tlie. Fox Glacier neve and up the west snow face of the GMeier Peak, and from there along the main divide and the north-west arreto to the summit of Douglas Peak. This 2s only the second t me that Douglas Peak lv •. been ascended, and Miss Gardiner is tlie first woman t( reach the summit. The first ase'-iit of these two nmun tains was made by- Dr E. Teiclielma‘in, the Rev. H. E. Newt in. and Guido A ex Graham from a bivouac < a Pioneer R d.g° at the head of the Fox Glac'er in February. 1907.