FOX GLACIER HUT
HIGHEST IN N.Z. ALPS WORK UNDERI TR YING CONDITIONS (By Telegraph—Pres* Association.) HOKITIKA. Nov. 7. Guide Black, of the Fox Glacier, has just completed building a new hut on Pioneer Ridge at the head of the Fox Glacier. The hut is at an elevation of about 8000 feet. It ranks as the highest in the Southern Alps and will be a jumping-off ground for several peaks of over 10,000 feet in the vicinity constituting the best climbing group in New Zealand.
The hut, the material and labour for which were supplied by Sullivan Bros., Weheka, was erected under trying weather conditions, but fortunately most of the material was taken up previously. Miss Gardiner will .spend some weeks in the locality carrying out high climbing in company' with Guide Black.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 7 November 1933, Page 7
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132FOX GLACIER HUT Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 7 November 1933, Page 7
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