MOST HAZARDOUS FLIGHT
IN DOMINION’S HISTORY SUCCESSFULLY ACCOMPLISHED (Bj Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. What is probably the most hazardous flight ever undertaken in the history of aviation in the Dominion wag successfully accomplished on Tuesday 'by Flight-Lieut. E. J. Olson and Ivan Penrose, vice-president of the Otago Aero Club, in a Moth machine. They flew into one of the long gorges that run toward the summit of Mount Aspiring, and manoeuvring between narrow rock wall and amid treacherous mountain air currents they dropped two loads of equipment for a climbing party which was making an attempt to scale the mountain.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 23 December 1933, Page 6
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